From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.9.574
Summary:
About a time conflict involving the R.S.L. and Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.193.242
Summary:
Asks JH for measures of several double stars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.158.369
Summary:
A note enclosed with the printed observations made with the Northumberland equatorial telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Luke Howard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.8
Summary:
Has directed the printers, Taylors, to send JH's booksellers the parts of the Barometrographia as issued, free of all costs. The science of meteorology attracts little attention at the moment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0533; Reel 1093
Summary:
Believes that RS's suggested correction, 'when translated into its equivalent value in terms of the inclination,' will provide sought-for values.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
17] May [1847
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.1; Reel 9
Summary:
JH's Cape Results is ready for publication. Gratitude for support of late Hugh Percy. Regrets HP did not live to see completion of Cape Results. Trusts that AP will continue support. Asks for interview. Encloses correspondence between HP and JH to show how arrangement originated.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.2; Reel 9
Summary:
Suggests JH visit tomorrow at noon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Date:
18 May 1847
Source of text:
MM/11/46, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.13; Reel 1093
Summary:
Reports that the printing of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere (which includes a preface by JH) is 'progressing satisfactorily.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 May 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/342, f.374
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0633.1
Summary:
A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.9.578
Summary:
Further to resolving the time conflict [see GA's 1847-5-15] and sending out invitations for Visitation Day.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
20 May 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/342, f.375
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.14; Reel 1093
Summary:
The alterations to N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere are nearly finished.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.15; Reel 1093
Summary:
Sends a proof of the preface that JH wrote for N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere; WS also gave a proof to G. B. Airy and to Richard Sheepshanks and requested that they comment on it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 May 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.18; Reel 1093
Summary:
WS has given instructions for forwarding JH's letters to Laplace [?] Lodge on Sunday and to Alton afterwards.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.16; Reel 1093
Summary:
Wants Thomas Henderson's ambiguous reductions mentioned in N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.17; Reel 1093
Summary:
Is concerned about the location of packages relating to the new edition of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:
CD would like to call on JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
