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Herschel1375

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826-1]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.324
Summary:

Comments on several experiments with spectra passing through glass films.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1307

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.257
Summary:

Asks JH about Dr. Balfour's account in Asiatic Researches about lunar effects on humans in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1211

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.258
Summary:

Comments on use of muriate of lime on plants. Also on existence of unexplained bands on film and on presence of red light beyond normal spectrum with light originating from certain sources.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN536

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Jan 1826
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/10/7, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Offers to obtain any or all of the Hungarian plants described by [Franz Adam von] Waldstein and [Paul] Kitaibel in ["Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae"] from a Munich botanist, in exchange for British specimens.

[Note, possibly in Smith's hand] "of Laycock Abbey, Nephew of Ld Lansdown".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel1374

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 January [1826?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.323
Summary:

Questions and comments regarding improvements in microscopy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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