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Herschel2996

From:
Wilhelm Struve
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.108
Summary:

Offers to participate in determining stellar parallaxes by finding the angle position of double stars. Apprises Henry Kater that he has never seen Saturn's rings separated. Includes micrometer measurements of Saturn and Jupiter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4951

From:
Giovanni B. Amici
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.338
Summary:

Has a micrometer under construction and gives details. Pietro Prandi has published a second memoir on mercury covered with sulfuric acid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0294

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
26 May 1826
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9416

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.169
Summary:

Sending a paper for the R.S.L. Humphry Davy does not approve entirely of his arguments. Would be pleased if JH would glance over it and then inform Davy that he has it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2056

From:
John Ramage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.298
Summary:

Discusses casting and construction of telescope speculae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1960

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1826]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0180; Reel 1087
Summary:

Will send JH some barometric observations; describes the barometers with which the observations were made.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0296

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
30 May 1826
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.172
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9419

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.172
Summary:

Was grateful for JH's letter and detailed notes. Hopes he will attach a copy to the paper when he communicates it to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8092

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826-6 or earlier]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.358
Summary:

J. J. Littrow's paper in F. X. von Zach's April [Correspondence astronomique, géologique, hydrographique et statistique] is only 'a new hash' of [F. W.] Bessel and no improvement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8093

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826-6 to 1829-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.359
Summary:

Send plan of furnace to TY or Michael Faraday before tomorrow's committee meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0297a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
2 June 1826
Source of text:
Fellowes and Pine (1942), 132-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9054

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 June 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.166
Summary:

Describes the pendulum experiments he and G. B. Airy are carrying out in Dolcoath Mine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12527

From:
Giuseppe Piazzi
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.397
Summary:

Kept busy by writing. Works with Teodoro Monticelli. Expects Captain [Richard] Copeland to visit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3000

From:
Franklin Bache
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 June 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.111b
Summary:

Thanks JH for material from AS of London. Mentions 'new comet.' Informs JH of being nominated to the list of foreign members in the American Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10004

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.339
Summary:

Asks for information, on behalf of JG's father, about a Cambridge man.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1310

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1826-7
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.261
Summary:

Talks about Josef Fraunhofer's failing health and his making of flint glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9055

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.167
Summary:

Reports that an accident destroyed one of the pendulums used by G. B. Airy and WW in their Dolcoath experiments. Obtained some results and believes in the general soundness of the method employed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4640

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 July 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.24
Summary:

Instructions regarding the printing of his paper the 'Figure of the Earth' in the transactions. Details of the disappointing expedition to Falmouth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10352

From:
Charles L. Harding
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1826-7-7 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.235
Summary:

A note to accompany one of CH's writings, together with some comments on comet sightings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4641

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 July 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.25
Summary:

Thanking him for his letters of introduction to Paris. Remarks on one of GA's papers; one of his calculations incorrect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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