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Herschel8732

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.124
Summary:

Thanks JH for commentary on RP's Other Worlds than Ours. Responds to JH's comments, accepting most objections. Acknowledges his major debt to JH's writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel156

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.695.464
Summary:

Would support the application for a grant [see JH's 1870-5-12], but would like to see some changes in the way calculations are made.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1828

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0645.2
Summary:

Refers to several items of correspondence, and then comments on the calculation of Gaussian earth-constants to a higher power than has been done to date.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10696

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.58
Summary:

The Council of the R.A.S. would like JH's opinion on the accompanying paper and drawing by Francis Abbott, and whether it should appear in the R.A.S.M.N.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8734

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.125
Summary:

Admits JH is correct in suggested correction of RP's statement regarding perturbations of Uranus. Suggests that JH urge astronomers to observe the solar corona carefully.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14137

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0364; Reel 1087
Summary:

Will visit JH on 27 May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14138

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0365; Reel 1087
Summary:

Apologizes for delay in responding to JH. Wrote to JH yesterday about AM's plan to visit Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2271

From:
J. Ryle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.516
Summary:

Appreciates JH's opinion regarding variability of climate, although it disagrees with his own. His views are not provable and the question remains one of probability.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2272

From:
J. Ryle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870-5-27 or after]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.517
Summary:

[Richard?] Proctor [?] agrees with JR's views on Cosmical Climates. Re-presents his theory because he feels he did not state it fairly in his earlier [1870-5-27] letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10347

From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.230
Summary:

Sending letter from a firm of stockbrokers giving a reply to JH's query regarding the East India Dock shares.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10272

From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.155
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter. Sends a report of the Geological Institute, which includes JH's notes on the founding of the Cambridge Analytical Society. Sends his own report on Homeric irons and on the R.S.L. catalogue of scientific papers. Austrian science was at a low ebb but is now improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8736

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.126
Summary:

Admits his misstatement in RP's Other Worlds than Ours concerning perturbation of outer planets. Shares JH's doubts about existence of Vulcan. Speculates on the extent of meteoric material in the solar system. Comments negatively on J. Norman Lockyer's views on meteors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4933

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.322 (C: RGO 6.382.355)
Summary:

Regarding Alexander Herschel's paper on acoustical oscillations recently sent to G. A. Erman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3210

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.409 (C: RI 572)
Summary:

Gratified by JH's 'sympathy and approbation,' and that JH's writing and spirit remain 'firm' and 'fresh.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2625

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.509
Summary:

Discusses the different strata of the ocean and [William] Carpenter's lecture on deep sea dredging. Is digging an artesian well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10348

From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.231
Summary:

Cannot give a definite answer regarding liability on the Dock stock without knowing the Act of Parliament under which the East India Company was incorporated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6255

From:
Joseph Gurney Barclay
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.16
Summary:

Would he accept a volume of observations carried out at the Leyton Observatory?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2626

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.510
Summary:

Sends two copies of JH's 'macular conspectus.' Mr. Titterton was very pleased that JH approved of his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11547

From:
John Knox Laughton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.464
Summary:

Sending JL's book Physical Geography (1870).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7790

From:
Thomas Francis Wade
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.6
Summary:

Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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