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Herschel457

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 May 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.86
Summary:

Sends GA a list of errors found in the sheets for the nebula catalogue [see GA 1863-5-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel458

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[31 May 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.95 (C: TxU:H/L-0023)
Summary:

Provides last list of errors and explains JH's role in detecting them [see GA's 1863-5-26]; is worried about the task of proofreading.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel585

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.709.131
Summary:

A letter of introduction asking GA to admit Major Robertson and his sisters to the observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel887

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2?] June 1863
Source of text:
JHS 5.8a
Summary:

Saw J. B. N. Hennessey [who had just come from India] at a Greenwich visitation day, but did not have time to speak to him there. JH will invite him to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel806

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richarda Airy
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
JHS 2,8
Summary:

Passes on recent reports of good news that daughter Caroline is improving, and that JH's wife, Margaret, survived the journey well. [Margaret went to Dublin to be with Caroline when she became very ill at the birth of her daughter Kathleen.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3369

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Taylor]
Date:
[4 June 1863]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Gives permission to reprint letters to Athenaeum on standard of length, in light of recent bill to metricize. Requests as many copies as possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel460

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.104
Summary:

Comments on GA's activity in correcting the calculation errors [see GA's 1863-6-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9218

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 June 1863]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207108
Summary:

Seeks WW's signature for the Thomas Maclear Memorial. JH's daughter Julia has been ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3411

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Taylor]
Date:
[11 June 1863]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Discusses dispersal of copies of letter against adoption of 'French metre' [see JH's 1863-6-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5554

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
Date:
[11 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.44 & 24.16
Summary:

Would be pleased to receive a sample of thallium. Queries regarding the manufacture of pure nickel and cobalt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5556

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
Date:
[18 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.46 & 24.17
Summary:

Thanks for the thallium. Further regarding his 'cobalt steel' and its uses. Fluorin glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel462

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 July 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.107
Summary:

Has spent much time on figures and annotations for JH's nebula catalogue [see GA's 1863-6-5]; JH needs information from a paper in GA's hands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 July 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.358.259
Summary:

Was surprised at the large vote in support of a parliamentary bill to abolish the British Standard of weights and measures; JH hopes bill will not pass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel889

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[14 July 1863]
Source of text:
JHS 5.9
Summary:

Comments on zero and observational errors when using a telescope, and adds some comments about family relationships and JH's nebula catalogue. [Part of this letter is indecipherable.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7156

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[17 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.365 & 24.18
Summary:

Agrees that the weather is hot. The word theodolite. Where did he obtain his verses by Walter Mapes? Why not come and visit them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1958

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
François N. M. Moigno
Date:
[18 July 1863]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.37
Summary:

Writes to FM to show several ways in which a series of prisms may be used in a spectroscope to have the light exiting in the same line as it entered the spectroscope. [Appends 4 pages of diagrams.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE317

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Jul 1863
Source of text:
HS 16.369, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2678

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[30 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.369 (Draft: RS:HS 16:370)
Summary:

Is sending manuscript with comments. Congratulates her 'activity of mind.' Critiqued her paper according to the effect it will have when published. Working on catalogue of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2969

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1863-8]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #30
Summary:

Describes in vivid detail the account of an 'extraordinary meteor' in October 1854. Given by a person from Hurworth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2971

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[18 August 1863]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #32
Summary:

Tells AQ that last letter on meteors was written not by JH but by A. S. Herschel. JH attributes phenomena to cosmic origins. Gives further details.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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