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Herschel9715

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.63
Summary:

Would like to add JH's name to the first published list [of Scientific Relief Fund]. Regarding donations to the fund.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7106

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.326
Summary:

Did his work on the Southern Constellations bring him into contact with a Frederic Houtmann? Regarding a manuscript stated to be by Galileo.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7682

From:
Alexander Bridport Becher and Captain R[obert] Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1859]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.4; Reel 10
Summary:

[Form letter] Announces 4 June visitation of Royal Observatory by Board of Visitors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7107

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.327
Summary:

Regarding one of JH's riddles. Sees he must write an article on Frederic Houtmann. Will be glad of the information on Galileo.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7108

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.328
Summary:

What does he make of the accompanying quotation from Amerigo Vespucci?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10267

From:
Matwei Matwejewitsch Gussew
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.151
Summary:

Had a card to visit Greenwich Observatory the same day as he received JH's letter so was unable to visit him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12292

From:
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.148
Summary:

Sending a section of their new atlas of the world, which includes some new features. Would like JH's comments. Will send the complete work when published if JH would like to see it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14422

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks permission to include JH on R.S.L. committee, headed by C. J. Selwyn (relative of George Peacock) and Dr. Beale, to purchase portrait of Peacock from artist Douglas Blakiston. Self-recording magnetic instruments have reached Washington safely.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5700

From:
W. Bonsey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.190
Summary:

Regarding the faculty pew in the new church. Is sorry he was out when JH called. Hears he is contemplating a change in his property.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10218

From:
George [Hamilton]-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.104
Summary:

The B.A.A.S. meeting is to be held at Aberdeen and would be pleased to accommodate JH should he be attending the meeting. Will not be going himself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7110

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.329
Summary:

Thanks for his pamphlet; will comment on it later when he has properly read it. Regarding Maine de Biran and his philosophy. Gives some of his own theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1394

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 May 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.37
Summary:

Comments on the effect of intensity of illumination on the distinctness of the spectrum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14423

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.4; Reel 1093
Summary:

Will assist JH in preparing review of terrestrial magnetism. Progress in publishing vol. 2 of observations from St. Helena. Prince Albert favors new observatories and hopes to see JH [at B.A.A.S. meeting] in Aberdeen. Research in British colonies. Demonstration of Mr. Gossert's apparatus by [T. R.] Robinson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9716

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.64
Summary:

Called at Burlington House and sees that more subscriptions have been added to the fund.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11946

From:
Matthew Fontaine Maury
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.308
Summary:

Thanks for JH's article on Physical Geography from the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Comments on this and gives details of some of his own researches into the causes of ocean currents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel77

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1859]
Source of text:
RGO 6.146.283
Summary:

Responds to same request as JH identifies in his 1859-6-11.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7336

From:
James Duncan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.512
Summary:

Pointing out an error in JH's statement in an encyclopaedia that there are no serpents in Borneo.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11993

From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.355
Summary:

Sending two volumes of his own Cosmos. Regrets he did not visit him in 1857.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7337

From:
James Duncan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.513
Summary:

Was pleased to receive JH's note. Further regarding the existence of serpents in Borneo. Suggests form of correction in encyclopaedia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14424

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

A. D. Bache reports that self-recording instruments are installed at Washington observatory and ready to begin observations. ES is making field observations to confirm changes in magnetic lines in England since ES's 1837 survey. [JH annotation: Summary of Bache's letter. Joint survey by Smithsonian Institution and U.S. Coast Survey will begin when Bache receives full instructions from Sabine.]

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