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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[2 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.372
Summary:

JH's inability to concentrate; comments in reply to AD's 1862-4-19 and 1862-4-29.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[2 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.371
Summary:

On the dynamics of atmospheric pressure and the pressure on clouds and birds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[4 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.373
Summary:

As JH is preparing a catalogue of all known nebulae, would WL please provide a complete listing of all he has seen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207105 (C: RS:HS 23.374)
Summary:

Sends another section of JH's Iliad translation. Regrets he cannot come to the Cambridge B.A.A.S. meeting. Sends lines of the Iliad translated by Augustus DeMorgan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[13 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.149b
Summary:

Times of 12 May called for remedy to industrial pollution. In 1838 JH visited soda production plant near Newcastle and suggested profitable modification to fume chimneys that removed harmful vapors and generated useful compounds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[14 May 1862]
Source of text:
London Times (May 15, 1862), p. 11, col. 4
Summary:

Calls public attention to an inexpensive process JH devised in 1838 to eliminate noxious acid fumes coming from manufacturers of soda.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J[ames] M[osey] Cranswick
Date:
[27 May 1862]
Source of text:
Science Museum Archives MS 1007 (ACCS: RS:HS 5.373 & C: 23.375)
Summary:

[Responding to JC's 1862-5-26], discusses JH's argument against the eternal self existence of matter. Gives reference to where argument appears in JH's Prelim. Discourse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 May 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.380.263
Summary:

Comments on several nebulae, and on GA's receiving an honorary degree [from Cambridge University].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[28 May 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.36
Summary:

Provides the information in response to GA's request for the position of one nebula [see GA's 1862-5-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.354 & 23.376
Summary:

Hopes AD will be successful in his projected paper on the infinity of magnitude. Does not recollect the paper by J. J. Sylvester. Has had a letter from Manchester on his own theory of eternal existence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Parsons
Date:
[31 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.224 & 23.377
Summary:

Outlines the early life of his father, Sir William Herschel, and shows that the cutting received from the Stroud Journal was inaccurate. [Marked 'not sent.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project