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Herschel5713

From:
Sarah Bowdich
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.204
Summary:

There may be a delay in supplying the copy of her book on fishes as she has to wait for a sufficient number of subscribers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6339

From:
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.102
Summary:

Has not heard from Thomas Young about the reduction of the Parramatta Observations. James Dunlop will not carry out this work; best to leave it to the one named. Will be coming to London soon as the New South Wales Bill comes up, so will call on JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1275

From:
Joseph Clement
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.45
Summary:

Needs more money to proceed with Charles Babbage's calculating machine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L1139

From:
Thomas Young
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
27 mars 1828
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 302 bis, Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel8074

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.340
Summary:

Board of Longitude will accomplish nothing by meeting before T. M. Brisbane comes to town, but TY suggests informal discussion, either at TY's or Henry Kater's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000826

From:
Davies Gilbert
To:
Davies Gilbert
Date:
29 March 1828
Source of text:
MM/14/4, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel9609

From:
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.350
Summary:

Sending the Memoires of the Académie.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-41

From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar [1828]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 60
Summary:

Caroline and Catherine Darwin were at the Forest a few days last week and Susan Darwin comes the next day. Mentions other relatives, friends, and acquaintances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8075

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.341
Summary:

Henry Kater not well [enough to travel] and requests committee meet at Kater's house. TY urges JH to verify W. H. Wollaston's measurement of refraction before republishing JH's essay. Diagrams Christiaan Huygens's principle of refraction. TY is making forms of aplanatic lenses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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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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