From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1842-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.285
Summary:
Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/176, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.60
Summary:
Has received from William Lassell some of the new observations he carried out with his new 9" speculum. Comments on these and various clusters of stars changing their position.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.402
Summary:
Sends a memoir he has scribbled off for next Wednesday's meeting. Would like JH's advice on several points.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
7 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 18
Summary:
Family news from Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Martin Cuddy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday night, March 8th 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3754, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
9] March [1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.4; Reel 1058
Summary:
Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.330
Summary:
Will be pleased to come to Collingwood at any time and hopes the Herschels will also visit them. Her son was right about the word quinque. Comments on the various ways different people observe the colors of stars. Will be pleased to see the poetic scraps.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.101 (C: RGO 6.340.341)
Summary:
Regarding JH's receipt of the 'Standard' reports. Remarks on the electrometer and barometer in the recent storm.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.403
Summary:
Many thanks for JH's explanations, which gave satisfaction to the geologists. Gives two queries of his own for which he would like clarification. Can they print JH's Alpine phenomena memoir?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.125
Summary:
Sending a description of the observatory he has erected, containing an equatorially mounted Newtonian reflector. Has high opinion of its efficiency. Has detected a sixth star near the trapezium of Orionis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
11 March 1842
Source of text:
GL MS 30108A/1, p.177-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[11 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.646
Summary:
Arranging a visit for GA to Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Maria Payne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 12th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3842, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
12 March 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
mid March 1842
Source of text:
Paul Heier
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 19
Summary:
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Phillip Evans
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Saturday night 1842
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3569; MS JT/1/11/3568, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.242
Summary:
Sends works on meteorology and instructions for natural periodic phenomena. More proselytes in horary observations. Asks for JH's recommendations for those observing meteors in the other hemisphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project