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Herschel14587

From:
Alexander Wallace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0558; Reel 1093
Summary:

Can offer no explanation of how Thomas Henderson computed tables from data in N. L. Lacaille's star charts. Henderson did all his work at home. Suggests explanations for Henderson's corrections in red ink.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel328

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.349
Summary:

Believes he has worked out the German notation of star positions [see GA's 1847-2-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3722

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[8?] May 1847
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.65 (C: RS:HS 25.9.40)
Summary:

Has figured out why [Thomas] Henderson's tables [see JH's 1847-5-6] appear as they do.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3875

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

Reports that the RAS has an available balance of £77. He calculates that to complete the printing of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, however, will require £83 pounds; WS hopes to cut costs so that they do not overspend their grant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5367

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[9 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.314
Summary:

Asks CB's advice on how correctly to avoid attending a Queen's ball JH has been commanded to attend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4791

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.181 (C: RGO 6.203.351)
Summary:

Concerning Thomas Henderson's reductions of N. L. Lacaille's observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel329

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.203.352
Summary:

Uses GA's comments [see GA's 1847-5-10] finally to achieve clarification of Thomas Henderson's calculations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3876

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.10; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sending to JH some information about 'L's catalogue' [either N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere or J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:

Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4005

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.11; Reel 1093
Summary:

Although WS is suffering from gout, he promises to work on the layout of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14445

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0532; Reel 1093
Summary:

Congratulates JH on finding solution [to Thomas Henderson's notations]. Sends extract of 11 Mar. 1841 letter from Henderson, stating that Henderson used computations in Francis Baily's edition of N. L. Lacaille's catalog. RS's notes on observation and reductions of J. J. L. Lalande. Sent skeleton of RS's 'Preface' to W. S. Stratford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4028

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.12; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discusses the layout of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel393

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.9.574
Summary:

About a time conflict involving the R.S.L. and Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel404

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.193.242
Summary:

Asks JH for measures of several double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.158.369
Summary:

A note enclosed with the printed observations made with the Northumberland equatorial telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10627

From:
Luke Howard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.8
Summary:

Has directed the printers, Taylors, to send JH's booksellers the parts of the Barometrographia as issued, free of all costs. The science of meteorology attracts little attention at the moment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14446

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0533; Reel 1093
Summary:

Believes that RS's suggested correction, 'when translated into its equivalent value in terms of the inclination,' will provide sought-for values.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7454

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
17] May [1847
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.1; Reel 9
Summary:

JH's Cape Results is ready for publication. Gratitude for support of late Hugh Percy. Regrets HP did not live to see completion of Cape Results. Trusts that AP will continue support. Asks for interview. Encloses correspondence between HP and JH to show how arrangement originated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7455

From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.2; Reel 9
Summary:

Suggests JH visit tomorrow at noon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000598

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Date:
18 May 1847
Source of text:
MM/11/46, Royal Society
Summary:

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Contributor:
Royal Society
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