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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Claude-Julien Bredin
Date:
janvier 1823
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 623-624.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1823?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.477
Summary:

Has been ill. Should we publish our observations of 340 double stars or extend the number to 400?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Pierre Simon Laplace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[early 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.7
Summary:

Sends paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Astronomische Nachrichten
Date:
1823
Source of text:
Astronomische Nachrichten, 1 (1823), 30-31
Summary:

Gives a formula related to a table published in the Nautical Almanac, which table listed various stellar observations made by John Pond.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.272 (C: RS:HS 25.13.17)
Summary:

Sends an abstract of his paper on observations relating to the practical construction of telescopes [JH's 'Practical Rules,' 1822]. Would like 25 copies for distribution. His recent experiments with polarized light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1823 to 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.285
Summary:

Previous engagement prevents WW 'joining the early party.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1823 to 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.287
Summary:

Unsure whether WW will be in town to dine with JH Monday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1823 to 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.290
Summary:

Most correct mode of proceeding will be to suppress incorrect corrections and not to give credit to [T. I. M.?] Forster for inferences of [Peter?] Barlow or calculations of WW.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.240
Summary:

Has requested the government to forward payment for the clock. Regarding variations in the observations of F. W. Bessel, John Pond, etc. Has high opinion of Bessel's work. Has been sending books for Thomas Catton, but he never replies. How is Greenwich Observatory heated? Some observatories have troubles with dampness. Recommends book by K. W. Feuerbach.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 January [1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.352
Summary:

Sends papers for R.A.S. and A. J. Fresnel's papers. Modifies analogy of infinite pipes to clarify TY's hypothesis of three principal colors. Charles Babbage sent survey of Mont Cenis. Can JH find its barometrical observations?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander Macleay
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
6 Jan 1823
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/160, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Long break in their correspondence. Publication of "Linnean Transactions" vol 14, lack of papers at Linnean Society meetings, requests one from Smith. Delay in last part of previous "Transactions" volume occasioned him "more vexation" than he can express; he is "most heartily sick of the Secretaryship" and asks that Smith consider a replacement; David Don's [(1799-1841), botanist] progress [as Society Clerk]. Several objectives he would like to complete before leaving office: a subscription for a bust of Smith, though fears he will not have much good will on this, having brought forward so many other subscriptions; a general index to "Linnean Transactions"; and to put the Society's funds on a better footing, proposals for this, asks Smith to chase up money bequeathed by Natural History Society [Society for Promoting Natural History, precursor to Linnean Society].

[Aylmer Bourke] Lambert and Mrs [Catherine] Lambert both unwell, when he took the Chair he "appeared as if he were mad", which was much commented on by Fellows, asks Smith to ensure [William George] Maton takes the Chair when the Bishop [of Carlisle, Samuel Goodenough] cannot attend. His daughter ill.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Joseph Goodall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.144
Summary:

Has been very busy and has only now had a chance to work on the inscription. Suggests various forms. Would like his comments on these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
7 January 1823
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 1007
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.313
Summary:

About meeting Walter Scott, lawsuits and family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Alexander Macleay
Date:
8 Jan 1823
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/161, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for Macleay's "kind letters" but has "very little time to write in reply" as the "Herculean labour" of his "English Flora" demands all his daylight and most of his evening time; current progress and publication plans.

Laments "most truly" Macleay intention to resign Linnean Society Secretaryship, suggests [Joseph] Sabine, Macleay's son, or [Robert] Brown as successor, asks Macleay's opinion. Will try to write a paper for Linnean Society for March. Thanks Macleay for suggestion of a bust of him, "should esteem the honour greater than being made a Baronet at the solicitation of the Soc[iet]y". Opinion on proposed index to "Linnean Transactions". Requests most recent "Linnean", "Horticultural", and "Philosophical Transactions". Proposes Dr [Christian Friedrich] Schwaegrichen [(1775-1853), zoologist] of Leipzig for FMLS vacancy. Respecting Society finances, proposes charging a guinea for each volume of "Linnean Transactions".

Approves of course of treatment for Macleay's ill daughter. He had "much illness" last year but is now "very well". Lectured at Birmingham, [Warwickshire], for a month "with good success, & hope [he has] "sown good seed"".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
? ? ?
Source of text:
Ebay (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Molyneux & Cope
Date:
13] January [1823
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.8
Summary:

J. J. von Littrow delighted with clock sent by M & C and commissions JH to order another for L. A. Fallon, director of Great Austrian Trigonometrical Survey. Describes modifications. Contact Littrow for further details.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Afzelius
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Jan 1823
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/34, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Has finished work on Linnaeus' autobiography "Life of Linnaeus" and has almost finished translation into Engish. Asks Smith to find a bookseller in London willing to publish the translation.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Anton Maria Vassalli- Eandi
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
19 Jan 1823
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/10/41, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for gift of Smith's "Compendium florae Britannicae" and Linnaeus' "Orbis eruditi Judicium" and "Observationes in Regnum Lapideum" to the Academia Reale delle Scienze di Torino [Royal Academy of Sciences Turin]. Twenty-sixth volume of transactions of the Academy has been dispatched for Smith, Linnean Society, and other societies. Confirms Smith is still one of the Academy's twenty foreign members. [Antonio Lodovico] Bellardi gratified by Smith's remembrance of him.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Alexander Macleay
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
22 Jan 1823
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/AM/162, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Aylmer Bourke] Lambert and Mrs [Catherine] Lambert both much better since he last wrote to Smith. Efforts being made to receive funds from Natural History Society [Society for Promoting Natural History, precursor to Linnean Society]. Smith's proposal to charge for next volume of "Linnean Transactions" not suitable.

Council thinks [Francis] Hamilton's 10 long papers on "Hortus Malabaricus" too long for "Linnean Transactions", they ask that Smith to write to Hamilton for them to be compressed as much as possible. Has no doubt that Smith's "English flora" will be "anxiously sought after" but recommends publishing it all together, in consideration of "Flora Britannica" not having been finished. Recommends Smith seek out Edmund Goodenough's [(1785-1845), headmaster] own copy of "Flora Britannica" with extensive manuscript notes. His daughter recovering from her illness.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London