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Herschel9678

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.28
Summary:

Outlining the circumstances leading to JH's name being proposed for the new council of the R.S.L. Hopes he will agree to his name being proposed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7553

From:
William Rutherford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.70; Reel 9
Summary:

Grateful for receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9365

From:
Edward Everett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.117
Summary:

Has received JH's volume and letter from Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland). Regards it as a valuable contribution to his library. Would like JH's opinion on the papers of Benjamin Peirce and his views on the planet Neptune.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1135

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grey
Date:
13 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2))
Summary:

Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7554

From:
John Ruskin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.71; Reel 9
Summary:

Grateful for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Was aesthetically inspired by JH's descriptions and drawings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0337

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Robert Martin
Date:
13th Nov 1847
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3758, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7836

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.40
Summary:

Close to finding expeditious, symmetric method for computing Bernoulli's numbers. Resolves four formulas that HW sent to JH earlier today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0338

From:
Robert Savage
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14th. Nov./47
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3857, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel88

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 November 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.688
Summary:

Asks GA for details about the scientific support provided by Hugh Percy; also asks about the availability of star charts on the Berlin Academy scheme.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel89

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.690
Summary:

Replies to JH's 1847-11-14, with respect to Hugh Percy and star charts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13708

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0063; Reel 1087
Summary:

[Received JH's 12 Nov. letter.] Send bill for Munich telescope to Admiralty. Order parts for dome construction, which [Thomas] Maclear cannot procure at Cape [of Good Hope].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel331

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.389
Summary:

Is still working on the distribution list for star catalogues [see GA's 1846-11-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4064

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.335
Summary:

Believes that Thomas Galloway's paper on solar motion deserves a medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4449

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.334
Summary:

Believes that if R.S.L. gives medals that year, J. R. Hind should receive one. John Lubbock is another possible candidate for his work on perturbation theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC10

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 November 1847
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes from Lisbon regarding his journey, letter sent with one to Miss Henslow. Anticipates good passage as far as Sidon but plans after reaching Egypt are uncertain, he will stay close to G.G. [Governor General]. Discusses how grandfather has invested JDH's money & how to draw money from W. & T.[?] after arrival in Calcutta [Kolkata]. Letter arrived at Portsmouth containing letters of introduction for JDH in Calcutta. Suggests Miss Cracroft would be liked by his family & should visit Kew & wants to know what friends of hers he should visit in India. Mother to forward this information through Mrs Kendal. Reports on progress with V.D.L. [van Diemen's Land] plants to be sent home by Dr Salmon, not Miller, along with the with the Niger m/s [manuscript]. Provisionally calls the new V.D.L. cruciferous plant Bretonia. This & the Fagus called ‘gunnii’ from the m/s of Gunn’s trip should be checked by Pl[anchon?] to see if names are occupied & characters drawn up. Dr Richardson to be informed what ship the plants are sent on so he can send case of bottles by the same via steamer to Barnes. JDH to write again from Gibraltar with account of Lisbon.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel3893

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.32; Reel 1093
Summary:

Advises that the catalogs [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] not be bound for another five or six months because some proof-sheets are still quite wet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3894

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.33; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discusses persons who deserve copies 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 (?).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1777

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0633.2 (C: RGO 6.203.391)
Summary:

Offers his suggestions for any trimming of the catalogue distribution list that may be necessary [see JH's 1847-11-17].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1136

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
18 Nov [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66)
Summary:

Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.

Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9297

From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
18 November [1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.51
Summary:

Does he mean his paper will be ready for the printer by 10 Dec.? Should be at the binders by the 19th. Political signs need watching. Richard Jones is not well. George Peacock will be home next week.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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