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From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.34
Summary:

Regarding the printing and distribution of JH's Address.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.35
Summary:

Is sending copies of the Address and circular, and two copies of his own pamphlets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[30 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.82
Summary:

Arrangements for paying dues to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; some comments about light passing through crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Manning
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
30 Jan 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/18/131, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Announces death of [Thomas] Woodward, following an illness which confined him for the last two weeks. Grief of the family and regret of the whole neighbourhood.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.126
Summary:

Recent happenings and committee decisions in the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 February 1820
Source of text:
JMA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Buisson (notaire)
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
2 février 1820
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 389, Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[2 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.127 (C: RS:HS 20.83)
Summary:

Regarding the forthcoming meeting of the Astronomical Society. The printing of his own address. Is preparing a paper on functional equations. Is prepared to accept the office of Foreign Secretary of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Susan Corrie
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Feb 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/70, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for plants, especially the mosses and ferns, her "peculiar favourites". Hope they will meet Lady [Pleasance] Smith in the spring. Wishes Smith could admire the flowers in her garden. Hopes the translation of Jussieu is not suspended; eager to see him in "an English dress".

[Postscript by Susan E Corrie, daughter of Susan Corrie]: thanks Smith for his remembrance of them; they read his book every night.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[3 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.84
Summary:

Clarifies areas of disagreement with DB in JH's explanation of the results of colored tints of light passing through polarizing crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.128
Summary:

Has had a letter from Davies Gilbert regarding the presidency of the Astronomical Society. Possible alternatives. Gives a problem of the law of chance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[8 Feb 1820]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/23/4, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Had intended to speak to Smith in person until hearing of death of Smith's mother. Offered position of Professor of Botany of Glasgow University; requests assistance and information from Smith on lecturing, asks for any book recommendations or published botany lectures.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.251
Summary:

Thanks for the extract of his paper. Comments on this and his own discoveries on the polarization of light. His fees for the articles will pay his subscription to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilson Lowry
Date:
[12 February 1820]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Asks where WL procured a certain 'large crystal of Fish-eye-Stone.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Hamilton
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
15 Feb 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/141, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Planning to come to London in April or May to attempt to settle at India House the remainder of his natural history collection and unless easily arranged "the whole for me may go to the devil". Hopes Smith received a copy of his "Hindu Genealogies".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Phillips
Date:
15 February 1820
Source of text:
APS MS 509 L56.18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir William Watson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.115
Summary:

Relieved that news of death of King [George III] did not weaken William Herschel. Will see JH and Lady Mary Pitt Herschel in Bath in April. Lady Watson and Miss Joy are not well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Wilson Lowry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
16] February [1820
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.491
Summary:

Finds that the crystal of 'Fish-eye-stone' came from Sweden and was attached to a mass of oxydulous iron. Hopes that JH receives this information in time for his paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.267
Summary:

Business matters relating to the R.S.L. and the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Martin Davy
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
17 Feb 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/107, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Regrets that he has already promised his votes for the Medical Tancred Studentships for 1821 and 1823 have already been promised, for Mr Woodward and Mr Austin, respectively, and otherwise happy to help any descendants of John Taylor; educational advice. Condolences on Smith's "severe losses" [deaths of Smith's and Pleasance Smith's mothers].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London