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Herschel13228

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0517.15; Reel 1053
Summary:

Mount Etna marks furthest point of JH's journey. Travel is difficult. Both JH and servant James Child are in good health. Describes ruins of Girgente. Send future letters to Geneva or Paris. [Letter continued 3-4 July at Mount Etna:] Few lines from Casa Inglese, highest house in Europe, built by Carlo Gemmellaro for travelers. [Letter continued 5 July in Catania:] Ascent of Mount Etna.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN893

From:
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
1 Jul 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/85, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Left London early for Lady Cullum's health. Missed Prince Leopold dining with the Linnean Club but [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert, Bishop of Carlisle [Samuel Goodenough], Sir Claude Scott [(1742-1830)], Mr Colebrooke, [William George] Maton, and Sir Benjamin Hobhouse [(1757-1831), politician] attended. Lambert's state of mind too unsettled for him to write to anyone unless absolutely obliged. Hopes Lambert sent Smith the continuation of his "[A description of the genus] Pinus" work. This summer possibly going to Ramsgate and Margate, [Kent], or Paris by steam vessel, and plans to visit Smith in Saxmundham, [Suffolk].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L664

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Auguste de La Rive
Date:
2 juillet 1824
Source of text:
().
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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L665

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jean-Jacques Ampère (fils d'Ampère)
Date:
2 juillet 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 659-660.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel4054

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0569.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Describes his laborious journey to the summit of Mt. Etna; from his barometric readings, concludes that its altitude is 10,000 or 11,000 ft. Asks about the progress of Johann Pfaff's translation of William Herschel's papers; JH mentions that he wrote to Pfaff from Cattagione, Sicily. [Letter continued 20 July from Naples and 16 Aug. from Florence.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5252

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[4 July 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.197 & 20.181
Summary:

Is observing the heavens from Etna. [Letter continued 11 July from Palermo:] Recent experiences touring Sicily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10524

From:
Thomas Hodgkin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.401
Summary:

Morichini will be gratified to see JH when he returns through Rome. The Abate Feliciano Scarpellini is also desirous of meeting JH; he is one of the foremost makers of instruments in Italy. Weather is just becoming hot, so hopes he gets through his Sicilian tour before the heat increases.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14764

From:
Carlo Gemmellaro
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 July 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0952; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses letter from CG's brother regarding barometer scales. Hopes JH had pleasant trip from Catania to Palermo in company of Count [Bessa?]. [Niccolò] Cacciatore will give JH six-year collection of DG's meteorological observations, soon to be published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L1172

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Samuel Christie
Date:
11 juillet 1824
Source of text:
Catalogue 36: Rare books, manuscripts and images in medicine, science and technology (2009), p. 1-2.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel14665

From:
Mary Pitt Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0623.11; Reel 1086
Summary:

Worried about safety of JH's voyage to Sicily. Mr. Tasker forced Mr. Davenport finally to pay back rent. Should telescope be painted to protect it from rain? Planning trip to Margate. Asks JH to buy watch for MPH in Geneva. Declined Mr. Beckwith's request for MPH to be godmother to new daughter. [Letter continued 28 June:] James South and wife will visit MPH tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13229

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0517.16; Reel 1053
Summary:

Departure delayed by week-long feast of St. Rosalie, patron of Sicily. No vessels moving. Reviews Sicilian scenery, weather, and culture. Compares Mount Etna and Vesuvius. Describes travel across center of island with companions Count Bessa Negrini of Mantua and C. G. B. Daubeny of Oxford. [Letter continued 14 July:] Oppressive heat in Palermo. [Letter continued 18 July:] Arrival in Naples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN2330

From:
William Parkinson
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Jul 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/48, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Fears the specimen he sent last year of 'Stachys ambigua', gathered near Quorndon, Leicestershire, never reached Smith; offers to send it again. Pleased to see the "long promised" "English flora" is appearing, and that Smith "does not follow the example of this generation of expensive works by putting too high a price on the book".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1297

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
William Roscoe
Date:
13 Jul 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/135, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Staying with Lady [Pleasance] Smith's aunt, whose house and garden is a "specimen of what one reads about in English novels of the best age, before the history of manners & character gave way to the picturesque or the frightful", although the journey caused his fever to return, which was treated with bleeding and James's powder.

Printing new editions of his "Compendium florae Britannicae" and "Introduction [to Botany]", and anticipates the continuation of "English Flora" to be "merely a pleasure & amusement". Resolved to limit his letter writing, "especially in reply to foolish schemes & questions about botany"; he is now being solicited about a Norwich Botanic Garden, certain it will not amount to anything. Criticises missing date in Roscoe's last letter.

Received from Paris "Annales de las Societe Linneenne de Paris", containing an eulogy of Broussonet. Corrêa has died at Lisbon; he had been a "little perverted by French botanists" and developed a "jealous twist" against Englishmen, especially Sir Joseph Banks.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L666

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 juillet 1824
Source of text:
().
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0238

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 July 1824
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9744

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mario Gemmellaro
Date:
[16 July 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.91 & 20.184
Summary:

Is grateful for the assistance received while in Catania. Comments on the divisions of the barometer. His own barometer was undamaged after travelling 500 miles over impassible roads. Would be pleased to receive communications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13186

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Watson
Date:
[16 July 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0494; Reel 1055 (C: RS:HS 20.183)
Summary:

Written from Palermo, this chatty letter describes JH's time in Italy and Sicily. JH mentions having ascended Mt. Etna and having spent the night on its summit. A second part of this letter is dated July 19 and its location is given as Naples. On way to Hanover.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4382

From:
Jean Louis Pons
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[17 July 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.177
Summary:

Thanks FB for informing him of his election to the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L667

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
19 juillet 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 661.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

LINNEAN781

From:
Samuel Goodenough
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
20 Jul 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/12/92, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

The lumbago he suffered from on his journey to Rose Castle has brought on gout. Relates an anecote relating to "the late sweet warbler" Mrs Sheridan and an apothecary. Smith must have enjoyed Sir Thomas Cullum staying.

Rose Castle gardens have suffered much, including goosberries, currants, and plums; a great loss for them living in a lone house so far from a town. Forwarded Smith's letter to Mrs Martin.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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