From:
Herbert Mayo
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.31
Summary:
Would like JH to peruse HM's work and publicize its considerable use to Robert Graham.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15:150
Summary:
Discusses plans for printing of 4 maps of terrestrial isotherms prepared by [H. W.] Dove along with Dove's commentary.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Richard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.332
Summary:
Thanks JH for poem [F. Schiller's 'The Walk']. Sends greetings to Lady Herschel.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[31 January 1843]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #797 (Feb. 4, 1843), 111
Summary:
Reports his observations on the explosion at Dover of 19,000 pounds of gunpowder.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Maclaren
Date:
[c. Feb 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A94v
Summary:
[Written on CD’s annotated copy of a pamphlet reprint of CM’s review of Coral reefs.] CD asks CM to return the pamphlet to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
Feb 1843
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Stewart
Date:
1843-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.102
Summary:
Agrees to provide Josiah Quincy with extracts from letters by James Grahame. Highlights of Grahame's life.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.341
Summary:
Has 50 copies of JH's paper ['On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on the Daguerreotype Plate'] for P.M. printed exclusively for JH. Asks opinion of papers for next issue of Scientific Memoirs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.98
Summary:
Has been reading JH's communication to the P.M. [on solar spectrum] and wishes to point out that RH was the first to carry out those experiments, which are recounted in the P.M. for 1840.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William O'Shaughnessy Brooke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.185
Summary:
Has ventured on the risks of an election to the R.S.L. and would like JH's support and influence with those on the Council. Was prevented from visiting Dover. Sails for Canada on 4 Mar.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.301
Summary:
Regarding his brother-in-law's sale of property. Sorry he was unable to meet him at Dover recently. Mother in good health.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.151
Summary:
Sent JH's letter concerning actinometers to all observatories. [Johann] Lamont must be informed of recent work. ES comparing fluctuations of direction and force at Toronto and Van Diemen's Land. Mentions [G. B.] Airy and air currents.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[14 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.302
Summary:
Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.80
Summary:
Note of thanks for paper of JH's; replies with a printing of a talk by FB about William Herschel.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 15.17 (C: RS:HS 22.147)
Summary:
Clarification of priority to the prismatic analysis of the Daguerreotype photograph; comments on the location of a limiting diaphragm in a camera obscura.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0491; Reel 1093
Summary:
Extract from observations of 70 Ophiuchi by F. W. Bessel. Results agree with WS's measurements by different method and increase WS's confidence. Hopes for more information on Gamma Virginis before finalizing WS's manuscript.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
G. W. Müller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.57
Summary:
Reports on GM's health and immediate travel plans.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Robert Hunt?]
Date:
[23 February 1843]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:
Thanks for the 'exquisite specimen of Daguerreotype.' Speculates on the possibility of making Daguerreotype portraits small enough to be set in rings or in shirt pins.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Christian Ludwig Gerling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.96
Summary:
A note accompanying some papers on the geodesic work carried out in Germany.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[24 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.234 (C: RS:HS 25.8.49)
Summary:
Thanks for his paper on the Earth. Wishes his own Cape work was finished and of the same standard as FB's work. Regarding support for Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy when his election to the R.S.L. is being considered.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project