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KEMP63

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 May 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/43)
Summary:

Thanks for WK’s letter of the 27th. RC has examined the country between Melrose and Kelso.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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Tyndall0329

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
May 29th 1847
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/1; MS JT/1/T/510, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday1993

From:
Letter Faraday
To:
James Nasmyth
Date:
29 May 1847
Source of text:
Nasmyth (1883), 284-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1994

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
29 May 1847
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 236
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3885

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

Has supplied Richard Sheepshanks with revisions of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française.... Because Sheepshanks previously accused WS of misplacing the proofs of JH's preface to N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere (which later were found to be where WS had asserted), WS quips that he 'returned every scrap of paper' to Sheepshanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11777

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.137
Summary:

Has just read W. R. Dawes's description of the observatory at Camden Lodge and the telescope by eorg Merz makes TM envious. Hopes JH will press claims for one for the Cape. Is at present engaged sinking the Sector for shelter. TM has suffered much from the effects of the heat. Dr. Gall has died, aged 98. What a drubbing G. B. Airy has given R. H. Inglis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3887

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Busily preparing sections of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere for the printer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3888

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.26; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discusses the layout of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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