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Herschel4795

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.185 (C: RGO 6.368.684)
Summary:

Concerning the method of observation by direct and reflected vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7486

From:
John Simson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.4; Reel 9
Summary:

Will forward Cape Results to F. B. G. Nicolai at Mannheim Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7617

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Bancroft
Date:
1] October [1847
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.133.2; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks GB for making exception. Will send copies [of JH's Cape Results] immediately to American legation. Offers personal copy to GB. Notes national and private efforts at astronomy in America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel86

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-1 or earlier
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.682
Summary:

About observing stars with the transit circle, and timing the annulus [of an eclipse?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel87

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1847-10-1 or later
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.686
Summary:

Was too cloudy to observe the eclipse; very worried about the health of Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1274

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 October 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel7539

From:
Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.56; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7443

From:
William Smith Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.13; Reel 9
Summary:

American ambassador George Bancroft gave permission for envoy to transmit official copies [of JH's Cape Results; see SE's 1847-9-23 and 9-28]. Smith, Elder & Co. retrieved all letters written to American recipients before these were sent from American consulate. Gratified to receive JH's permission to publish [JH's Cape Results]. Already have several orders. Encloses Bancroft's letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13775

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter
Date:
2 Oct [1847?]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Summary:

Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7540

From:
Henry Raper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.57; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates JH on completion of many years' labor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4041

From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1847]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

The equatorial on the Dublin Observatory dome needs improvement. In the last fifty-two months, WH has seen three new planets: Neptune, Iris, and Flora.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7444

From:
William Smith Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.14; Reel 9
Summary:

Just learned that American ambassador George Bancroft is disappointed at not receiving presentation copy [of JH's Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7478

From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.24; Reel 9
Summary:

Sending last Royal copy [of JH's Cape Results] today. Edward Everett's copy goes soon. Suggests sending copy to Prof. Robinson of New York.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7541

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.58; Reel 9
Summary:

Received JH's Cape Results with joy. JH gives new interest to 'our old friend the Great Bear.' WW thinking of setting up self registering photographic magnetic observatory at Lowestoft.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7487

From:
Baron de Cello
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4] October [1847
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.5; Reel 9
Summary:

Asks JH to send [Cape Results] to Bavarian Legation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7633

From:
Baron de Linden
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.150; Reel 9
Summary:

Agrees, in Baron K. A. Hügel's absence, to forward copy [of JH's Cape Results] to Tübingen. Please send it to Württemberg legation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7605

From:
Daniel Dewar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.122; Reel 9
Summary:

Absence from Aberdeen delayed DD's thanks for Cape Results. Official acknowledgement from [Marischal] College senate will be sent soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7543

From:
John Henry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.60; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7578

From:
L. Craeyvanger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.95; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude from Council of University of Utrecht for copy of JH's Cape Results donated to library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1122

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[4 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63)
Summary:

Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.

Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.

Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.

Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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