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From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.419
Summary:

Sending an algebraic problem and its solution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.420
Summary:

Pointing out an error in one of JH's definitions in the treatise on sound.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.421
Summary:

Saw W. S. Stratford yesterday. Has everything ready. Richard Sheepshanks will assist with the pendulums. If he wants more on the interest works, write and he will send a complete list.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.422
Summary:

Regarding a citation for J. W. Lubbock's award.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.423
Summary:

Regarding the task of sorting his books. All W. H. Smyth's daughters are married; wait until the last one of JH's is married. Has had a letter from W. R. Hamilton. Heat has been dreadful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.424
Summary:

Regarding JH's new theory of perspective.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.425
Summary:

Regarding a proof of L. A. J. Quetelet and the proposition that arises from it. Wife is nursing her mother.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.426
Summary:

Anne Sheepshanks would like JH's copy of Richard Sheepshanks's pamphlet in answer to James South and Charles Babbage, to bind with other things and return it to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.427
Summary:

Did the German edition of William Herschel's works ever materialize? Was Francis Baily's Synopsis of Laplace's Principal elements of Astronomy published? Gives a query regarding the possibility of the latter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.428
Summary:

Sending some tracts which JH does not possess. Elizabeth Baily is rather better, though still weak.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.429
Summary:

What does he think of [Joseph] Liouville's journal in which 13 of the 14 communications are by the editor? Sends another riddle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.430
Summary:

Sends a sonnet to express thanks for one of JH's books. Regarding an answer to S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone). Mr. Vaughan and the question of gold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.431
Summary:

Sending proposed prospectus for a 'fun2y algebra.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.432
Summary:

Sending proposed prospectus for a 'fun2y algebra.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.193bis
Summary:

Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.194
Summary:

Has accepted an invitation to visit the Victory and hopes to meet the JH's at the same party. Is off to the dockyard to see about an anchor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.195
Summary:

Has been staying at Rome, where the climate did not suit him, but is now on a small ship touring the Mediterranean. Sends a letter of Feliciano Scarpelini, who has a man working a specula made of marble. Palermo Observatory is being put on a secure footing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.197
Summary:

Further about the experiments of T. T. Grant. Man presented him with a sealed packet on the subject of the precession of the equinoxes by means of the libration of the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Benjamin D'Urban
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-3-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.517
Summary:

Introducing a German gentleman who is on his way to South Australia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Benjamin D'Urban
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.518
Summary:

Is grateful for the news from Natal. Congratulates him on his decision to send troops so promptly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project