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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[9 May 1820]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 20.94)
Summary:

Asks if FB is willing to be proposed as an Associate member of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.1
Summary:

FB's observations. Happy to become associate of new Astronomical Society. Discusses observations of Halley's Comet by James Bradley and Nathaniel Bliss.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[17 November 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.128
Summary:

Sixteen-month delay in receipt of FB's observations. Willing to publish James Bradley's observations of Halley's Comet but questions accuracy of Nathaniel Bliss's. Sends John Brinkley's analysis [of April 1821 comet observed by Basil Hall in southern hemisphere]. Please describe Georg Reichenbach's new [transit] circle at Königsburg.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[20 November 1821]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 20.128)
Summary:

Responds to FB's much delayed answer to JH's 1820-5-9; comments on some observational matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[22 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.1
Summary:

FB was elected associate of Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.66
Summary:

Thanks JH for FB becoming Associate member of Astronomical Society; FB is planning to prepare a new major star catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.67
Summary:

Thanks JH for some papers, sends some of his own; comments about errors in Greenwich star catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[7 August 1822]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 19.26, 20.151, & B28.5)
Summary:

Thanks for the publications by FB that FB sent. JH has sent the copies to the persons FB designated. Discusses the 'enigmatical difference in the places of the stars as observed here & on the Continent.' Cannot explain this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.68
Summary:

Letter of thanks for a copy of JH's thoughts on light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project