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L721

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
?
Date:
avril 1828
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 701.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel8076

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1828-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.342
Summary:

Hopes JH will stay for Sunday dinner at TY's before JH visits Dr. Litten. If so, please invite T. M. Brisbane and Francis Baily to join them. Writes formula TY discovered for discontinuous spectra. TY can now communicate with H. W. M. Olbers and T. J. Seebeck via H. C. Schumacher.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5279

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.224
Summary:

His feelings on hearing of his being elected to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge. Regarding Joseph Clement and the work on his machine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9065

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.173
Summary:

Encourages JH's efforts in writing a treatise on sound. Asks JH's advice on a system of mineralogical classification that WW, as Cambridge's new professor of mineralogy, had drawn up.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5714

From:
Sarah Bowdich
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.205
Summary:

Thanks for his generous letter and enclosures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-68

From:
Rev.d J. Holme
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 April 1828
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel6249

From:
R[obert] Baldwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.10
Summary:

Conveys the best thanks from the directors of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana for the liberal settlement over his article 'Light.' He will receive a fine paper copy of the encyclopaedia in due course.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8605

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Date:
[9 April 1828]
Source of text:
AdWDDR II-III, 115
Summary:

Thanks for JH having been elected a Corresponding Associate of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-69

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
11 April 1828
Source of text:
British Library Add. 32441: 55-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel2158

From:
Alexander Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.403
Summary:

Recently received telescope from the optician. Some adjustments are necessary. [Robert] Blair has a similar idea regarding telescopes. Asks JH to mention his idea to the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12643

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mary Baldwin]
Date:
[13 April 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0063; Reel 1054
Summary:

Health of JH's mother. Recommends History of George Godfrey. Asks if Waterloo, recently lost, was ship that 'C. White sailed in.' Gift for Wesleys. Letter from JH's aunt. Declining many invitations in order to continue star observations. Remembrances to the Grahames.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-70

From:
R. K. Greville
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 April 1828
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 84
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10032

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.367
Summary:

Invites JH to London to meet a friend of JG.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0354

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alfred Ainger
Date:
14 April 1828
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5278

From:
Elizabeth [Betty] Plumleigh Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.223
Summary:

Gives views of her son (Charles Babbage) on hearing of his election to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5953

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.76
Summary:

Regarding letters from J. L. Tiarks concerning Saturn, and Dr. K. L. C. Rümker concerning J. C. Borda's pendulum at Parramatta.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5280

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth [Betty] Plumleigh Babbage
Date:
[17 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.225
Summary:

Recent work and money expended on CB's machine. News of town. James South intends to sell his instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10033

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.368
Summary:

JH's mother has been ill. Is JH coming into town?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L722

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Adolphe Quételet
Date:
19 avril 1828
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 952-953.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel8478

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.458
Summary:

Attended meeting of the Astronomical Society and made observations of Saturn. Invites JH to dinner party. Activities at the Board of Longitude. Contacts with French scientists.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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