From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.182 (C: RGO 6.155.364)
Summary:
Regarding the final payments for the Liverpool Telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.400
Summary:
In explanation of [15:399] reminds JH of all he wrote for Astronomische Nachrichten previously. Cannot attend B.A.A.S. meeting because of daughter's wedding, but would have declined anyway because of foreseen arguments over the merits of J. C. Adams and U. J. J. Leverrier. Thanks JH for standing invitation to visit England.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Margaret Roberts Ginty
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3705, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 June 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.6; Reel 9
Summary:
James Hayday is recommended as best bookbinder [for Cape Results]. Explanation of how to bind copies for royal patrons. Encloses list of eleven royal recipients and Hayday's address. What shall AP do with JH's correspondence with late Hugh Percy?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
12 June 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/44)
Summary:
Thanks for information about Yarrow terraces. Does not think WK’s objections to the lake theory of Upper Tweeddale insurmountable.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 95
Summary:
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
W. W. Rundell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.433
Summary:
Sends ideas about southern deviation of bodies falling from the perpendicular. Desires corrections. Is investigating methods of launching bodies so they fall without deflection.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[13 June 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.8; Reel 9
Summary:
Will send 13 copies [of JH's Cape Results] for royal recipients to bookbinder James Hayday. Appropriate to bind all other presentation copies 'in Boards.' Please return letters from late Hugh Percy. Return incomplete copy of book to Smith, Elder & Co. JH suggests changes in epigraph and preface to express better HP's and AP's contribution to Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.205
Summary:
Should ES send thermometers to observatories? JH and [Francis] Beaufort to consider debt owed to Hudson Bay Company. Sends letter describing photometer of [John] Ball for JH's opinion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomson
Date:
14 June 1847
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7342, F32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.193.244
Summary:
Provides the measurements for Beta Aquarius and Alpha 2 Capricorni [see JH's 1847-5-23].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.155.366
Summary:
Agrees with GA [see GA's 1847-6-11] about paying up accounts.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Collins
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0130; Reel 1054
Summary:
Refuses permission for JH's portrait to appear in Collins's Portraits & Memoirs of Eminent Conservatives (1846). JH has never identified publicly with any political party.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.28; Reel 1093
Summary:
Promises to send to JH copies of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française..., and of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere by week's end. WS has tried to connect Francis Baily with JL's Catalogue in a 'formal' manner.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Beckwith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 June [1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.35
Summary:
Offers his rooms to JH when he attends the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.236
Summary:
Does he know anything about E. J. Lowe's book [Treatise on Atmospheric Phenomena, 1846] on atmospheric phenomena? Looks good but cannot trust his own judgement. Could not dine with him as he had another appointment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1847
Source of text:
DAR 100: 75–6
Summary:
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.458
Summary:
The Professor of Botany at the Royal Dublin Society has died. Would like to propose their friend W. H. Harvey for the position. Would JH write a letter of commendation to the Society?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
