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Herschel829

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1847
Source of text:
JHS 3.15b
Summary:

Reports on a visit to Grandma [Emilia Stewart]; may go to Cambridge; sends MH a draft beginning of a review of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8906

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 8 (1847), 14-15 inc
Summary:

Accepts with thanks J. Henry Griesbach's drawings of solar spots. Encourages others to observe the sun. Suggests the use of photography in recording solar spots. Pledges to give the R.A.S. all JH's drawings of solar spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[1847?]
Source of text:
RI
Summary:

Encloses post office order; not knowing WG's 'Christian' name; hopes that WG can sign 'William.' Apologizes for being unable to attend 'the Dinners.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9161

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.5751
Summary:

Agrees to inclusion of his initials in WW's Verse Translations and to vote for Prince Albert in some Cambridge election. Comments on the 'mess' in the R.A.S. over awarding its medal for 1848.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9162

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. O.15.481
Summary:

Thanks WW for the supplemental dedication to JH in the second edition of WW's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. Is making slow progress correcting JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP6977

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Newman
Date:
1847?
Source of text:
Newman, E. (1847). Capture of Trichius fasciatus near Neath. Zoologist : 5 : 1676
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel9303

From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.57
Summary:

Longmans reckons on 60 pages for the next number so would JH have his article ready to time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE204

From:
William Somerville
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
before 1847
Source of text:
private posession
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel9163

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.210
Summary:

Recommendations on how best to make tidal observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1050A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
2 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859))
Summary:

Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1396

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
4 January 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.191, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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HENSLOW-1171

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
5 January 1847
Source of text:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection OSB MSS FILE 7178
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel14082

From:
Charles Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0301; Reel 1087
Summary:

Explains combined British and foreign postage rate applied to JH's letter, which has been forwarded to France. [JH annotation on verso about actinometer.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4786

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.176
Summary:

Sends extracts of a letter from H. C. Schumacher. Does not agree with Schumacher regarding F. W. Bessel's 'specific attraction.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10389

From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.269
Summary:

Has been investigating the Cavendish experiments recently repeated by Francis Baily. Thinks G. B. Airy has neglected the resistance of the air in his mathematical theory. Would like to send an abstract of his investigations so that JH can judge their merits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-327

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 January 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 188
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel3713

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.56
Summary:

Recounts discussion in R.A.S. council regarding how the Society's medal should be awarded in response to the discovery of Neptune. U. J. J. Leverrier led J. C. Adams in the voting, but did not receive enough votes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6958

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[8 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.296
Summary:

Needs someone to translate German/Latin letters; about James Ross's polar expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1946

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 January 1847
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6959

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.233
Summary:

Will do what he can for J. C. Gerhardt. Appears to be unfair regarding Isaac Newton and G. W. Leibniz. Is working on a list of writings in arithmetic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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