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RS-MM-000689

From:
unknown
To:
D Nutt
Date:
1842
Source of text:
MM/11/204, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000691

From:
unknown
To:
D Nutt
Date:
1842
Source of text:
MM/11/206, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000692

From:
unknown
To:
JD Roberton
Date:
1842
Source of text:
MM/11/208, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000685

From:
unknown
To:
W E Shuckard
Date:
c.1842
Source of text:
MM/11/198, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000686

From:
unknown
To:
D Nutt
Date:
29 June 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/200, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000688

From:
unknown
To:
D Nutt
Date:
5 July 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/203, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000687

From:
unknown
To:
W E Shuckard
Date:
7 July 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/202, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000690

From:
unknown
To:
D Nutt (?)
Date:
20 July 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/205, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel14710

From:
'Q in a Corner'
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0908; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3076

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.241
Summary:

Thanks for letter of 3 December and for encouragement. Informs JH that 30 observatories participated in observation of winter solstice. Is beginning to study humans in their different relations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3077

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.242
Summary:

Sends works on meteorology and instructions for natural periodic phenomena. More proselytes in horary observations. Asks for JH's recommendations for those observing meteors in the other hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3078

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.243
Summary:

Thanks JH for interest taken in periodic phenomena. Discusses train information and preferred hotel accommodations for JH's visit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3079

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.244
Summary:

Continues horary observations suggested by JH. Also magnetic observations. Discusses observations of migration of birds. November has been cloudy so far and meteors cannot be seen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000661

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
31 January 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/168, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000667

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
19 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/174, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000669

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/176, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000671

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
21 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177A, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000831

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Royal Society
Date:
16 November 1842
Source of text:
MM/14/40, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1394

From:
Alexander Johnston
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 April 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10709

From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.66
Summary:

Recounts details of his recent visit to England. Recent astronomical observations. Has JH heard from C. K. J. Bunsen about his award?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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