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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[19 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.335
Summary:

Recounts various reports of phenomena in the sky related to the 'great Moscow phenomenon' of 'mock Suns and inverted Arches.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[23 October 1870]
Source of text:
RI 459 (draft : RS:HS 17.409a; C: RS:HS 24.336; C: RI 573-4)
Summary:

Thanks for paper on action of rays 'of high refrangibility' on gases and vapors. Attempts to understand reflection of wave motion on particles with diameters 'incomparably smaller' than length of wave.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[30 October 1870]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib.
Summary:

Sends a copy of JH's version of the German Rhine Song, which JC requested. Comments favorably on French losses in the Franco-Prussian War. Thanks her for visiting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library (ACCS: TxU:H/M-0222.2; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Agrees with GG and G. G. Stokes that the 'Magnetic Reduction Grant' should be approved. G. A. Erman also agrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William H. Attree
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.337
Summary:

Relationship of electricity to magnetism, and relevance to 'auroral streamers'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.338
Summary:

Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[6 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.339
Summary:

Returns, with thanks, a copy of JL's father's [John William Lubbock] work on lunar theory, and compliments JL on his own writings on prehistoric man.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[10 November 1870]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

[Responding to WJ's 1870-10-29], JH declines participating, suggesting that too many lobbying groups already exist and that such groups frequently end up agitating for ends others than those that led to their creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[17 November 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.41
Summary:

Asks son John whom he would like to have sign the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-9-7]; JH talks about ways of dealing with local irregularities in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1869-11-25]; is wishing Amelia and family were out of China and into India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
Date:
1870-11-[26 orlater]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.106 (C: RS:HS 24.341)
Summary:

Outlines the difficulty of selecting a person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 December 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.382.356
Summary:

About the health of Richarda Airy and that of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[9 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 37199.524
Summary:

Thanks CB for receipt of a meteorological work by CB's son [B. H. Babbage], now in Australia. JH says he grows stupider every day and is a 'prisoner in the bonds of bronchitic tyranny.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 46126.408
Summary:

Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[22 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.326 (C: RS:HS 24.342 & draft: RGO 6.132.110)
Summary:

Thanking him for copies of books. People at Collingwood are gazing at the eclipse. Concerning the astatic needle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Dallmeyer
Date:
[25 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.340
Summary:

Thanks and a detailed description of the functioning of a pair of binoculars sent by JD to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[29 December 1870]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #58 (draft: AB: #59)
Summary:

Inconceivable that JH merely writes 'J'accepte' (I accept) in response to the great honor AQ bestows upon him by dedicating his book to JH. Congratulates AQ on his 'fresh contribution to statistical knowledge.' Has just completed his catalogue of approximately 10,000 double and multiple stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William John Macquorn Rankine
Date:
[14 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.468 (C: RS:HS 24.343 & CC: JHS 5.40)
Summary:

Writes to thank WR for the paper on the thermodynamic theory of waves he sent; JH is too ill to respond or even to deal with the analysis in the paper. Nonetheless, JH does make some suggestions for WR's consideration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Nature
Date:
[21 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.161b
Summary:

Requests publication of a notice of the recalculation by H. J. R. Petersen of the Gaussian constants of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[22 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.107
Summary:

Has sent a note to Nature stating the details of the grant paid by the B.A.A.S. to H. J. R. Petersen for magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Ellis Dudgeon
Date:
[22 January 1871]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.26 (C: RS:HS 24.348)
Summary:

Comments on use of 'air' lens rather than glass in some circumstances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project