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From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 October 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.20; Reel 1093
Summary:

The B.A.A.S. grants £70 for the publication of the catalog of J. J. L. Lalande and N. L. Lacaille.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1850]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.132
Summary:

Asks JH to send copy of [T. R.] Robinson's memorial to John Russell on the southern telescope. Robinson's statement 'is wanted' for upcoming council meeting and has not yet arrived.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.21; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH is appointed to a committee that will consider repeating the Balloon Experiments of 1852. William Whewell will head the committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.22; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards copy of the resolution of the General Committee of the B.A.A.S. concerning the continuation of study of magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February] 1858
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.23; Reel 1093
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd, Thomas Robinson, and Edward Sabine will form a committee to continue studying magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH appointed to a committee including George Wilson, David Brewster, Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and William Pole to study color blindness. They will be granted £10.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
unknown
Date:
22 November 1866
Source of text:
MM/21/19, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society
Date:
27 December 1867
Source of text:
MM/21/20, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Phillips
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 42
Summary:

Will be out of town, so he cannot vote for Henry Parker.

CD ought to come to see his Cetiosaurus, of which he draws a likeness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project