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RS-MM-001117

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10 October 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/157, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001123

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
13 November 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/163, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall1258

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 21, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/93, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1261

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 27 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/92, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

SOMERVILLE305

From:
John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
2 Aug 1856
Source of text:
HS 9.38, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE306

From:
John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
7 Aug 1856
Source of text:
HS 9.39, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2538

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.448 (C: RS:HS 23.185)
Summary:

Discusses AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. Wishes to have the completed work sent to him and sends congratulations on its completion. JH's health is improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:

Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1936

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1856 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.13
Summary:

A note indicating JH's willingness to say a few words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4139

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[5 February 1856]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Sends regrets over TM's son not passing exam. Tries unsuccessfully to arrange a second testing. Fears war in Europe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2539

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[11 February 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.447 (C: RS:HS 23.165)
Summary:

Praises AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. All is well at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9814

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[13 February 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.149 (C: RS:HS 23.166)
Summary:

Sorry to have given him the trouble over the box; sends the required letter. Unfair of the Times to blame AH for the disasters in the Crimea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8573

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. J. Luff[?]
Date:
[14 February 1856]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng. 196(3)
Summary:

Deals with the computation of a tax matter [regarding Observatory House in Slough?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8681

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Macarthur
Date:
[17 February 1856]
Source of text:
New South Wales State Library
Summary:

JH, having examined the accounts, finds the charges for the medals fit with Leonard C. Wyon's agreement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[9 March 1856]
Source of text:
Journal of the Society of Arts, 4 (April 19, 1856), 342
Summary:

Declares his confidence in the certificates of proficiency about to be awarded by the Society of Arts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8588

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[19 March 1856]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library (ACCS: RS:HS 4.196)
Summary:

Conveys his confidence in the appropriateness of the certificate of proficiency awarded by the Society of Arts to men who have done well on the Society's examination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11614

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[19 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.167
Summary:

Is sending a letter of support for a neighbor for the position of commander of constabulary about to be established in Kent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1132

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[28 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.2
Summary:

Is able to sit up in a wheel chair only a few hours a day; JH's illness has left him out of the sphere of scientific activity so he is unable to make any useful suggestions about medals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
6 April [1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.331
Summary:

[Reply to GA's [1856-4-6 or earlier] on Mohamet's coffin theory.] Congratulations on GA's son winning a scholarship. JH's health is better, but he cannot walk yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel29

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 April 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.376.364
Summary:

A number of options are proposed by JH to help GA solve his problem with the mercury level [see GA's 1856-4-14]; JH is feeling much better but fears he may 'never again be able to walk.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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