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Herschel8636

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall
Date:
[24 April 1857]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

FF having suggested some time ago the publication of a collection of JH's essay, JH now offers to send FF JH's Essays Q.E.R.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9192

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 May 1857]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20793
Summary:

Invites WW to Collingwood, informing him of other visitors coming and new rail schedule.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6824

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[6 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.198
Summary:

Thanks for engravings of Saturn and Jupiter; would like to see an astronomical picture book produced.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2376

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.199
Summary:

Heard ES recommended JH write an article for Edinburgh Review on terrestrial magnetism. Asks what he should read to write this article. Photographs ES sent of sun not promising.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12857

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Spring-Rice
Date:
15 [May?] 1857
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0264; Reel 1054
Summary:

Responds to questions by Lord Overstone [on decimal coinage]. TS may edit these as needed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7064

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[16 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.200
Summary:

On some odd results JH has arrived at about P. S. Laplace's barometric formula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11616

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[28 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.202
Summary:

Regrets that he cannot attend B.A.A.S. meeting and stay with HL; thanks HL for his paper on the undulating theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2378

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[9 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.203
Summary:

Willing to write article if Quarterly [Review] will publish it, if he may take his time writing, and if ES will provide aid regarding meteorology and magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7066

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[10 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.204
Summary:

On magic squares.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel885

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[18 August 1857]
Source of text:
JHS 5.6
Summary:

The letter contains financial arrangements with son John while still in England, extensive comments on the fighting and restructuring of the colonial system in India, some matters relating to earth strata, and finally an extended discussion of the 'Cavendish experiment' [for measuring the gravitational attraction between lead balls].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8591

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
François N. M. Moigno
Date:
[27 August 1857]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib.
Summary:

Invites FM to visit him at Collingwood on his return trip to Paris from the B.A.A.S. meeting in Dublin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3612

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[7 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS RR.3.251
Summary:

Is returning C. P. Smyth's paper ['Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856,' [R.S.P.T., 148, 165-], believing it now 'unobjectionable for publication.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9193

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[17 September 1857]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20799 (C: RS:HS 23.205)
Summary:

Thanks WW for letters. Has been visited by [ [J. B. L.] Foucault; impressed by Foucault's instruments. Notes large number of sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[25 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.206
Summary:

Thanks for photograph of the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel26

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 September 1857]
Source of text:
RGO 6.377.433
Summary:

Asks GA for clarification of the value for the 'mean equatorial horizontal parallax' of the moon, since two different values are given by different authors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7068

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[8 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.299 & 23.207
Summary:

Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4443

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Stark
Date:
[8 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.2 (C: RS:HS 23.208)
Summary:

Discusses JS's paper on barometric table corrections in relation to mercury readings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7072

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[21 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.210
Summary:

Comments about JH's ancestor, Hercules, and replies to S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries [see AD's 1857-10-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11617

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[21 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.209
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of Outlines Astr., and would like to know from WL the status of each of the satellites of Uranus and Neptune.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11618

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[24 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.211
Summary:

Begs not to be chairman of the proposed Magnetic Conference Committee [see HL's 1857-10-19], but would serve on the committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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