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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 March 1827
Source of text:
RI MS F3 B395
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 August 1827
Source of text:
RI MS F3 B397
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 November 1827
Source of text:
RS MS HS 26.34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 November 1827
Source of text:
RS MS HS 26.35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[a member of the Glass Committee of the R.S.L.?]
Date:
[1827?]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.46
Summary:

It appears that J. T. Cooper would be willing to work in the performing of glass experiments. If this seems acceptable, then a meeting of the glass committee should be called.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1827 to 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.369
Summary:

Regarding various publications for distribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Davies Gilbert
Date:
[1827 to 1829?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.12
Summary:

Will not attend council meeting. JH comments regarding the nomination for foreign membership [of R.S.L.?] of Teodoro Monticello.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georgiana Babbage
Date:
[1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.367
Summary:

Announcement of Baden Powell's election to the Savillian chair of Geometry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilhelm Struve
Date:
[3 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.111a (C RS:HS 20.243)
Summary:

May not be able to separate double stars with the twenty foot reflector. Is reviewing nebulae. Regrets [Josef] Fraunhofer did not live to see WS's work. Speaks of standard catalogue of 2881 stars as joint labor of all observatories. Interested in bright stars with minute companions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mario Gemmellaro
Date:
[11 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.94 & 20.244
Summary:

Sends his reasons for not writing. Includes results of his readings of Etna and observations of the comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Davies Gilbert
Date:
[16 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.245
Summary:

Some R.S.L. business matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
20] January [1827
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20714 (C: RS:HS 20.246)
Summary:

Asks WW to sign a certificate on behalf of the election of [William] Ritchie to the R.S.L. and to ask Adam Sedgwick to sign also.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[25 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.247
Summary:

Asks DB to sign a certificate for the candidature of William Ritchie for admission to R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[30 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.208 (ACCS: RS:HS B27.11)
Summary:

Argues that neither CB nor his friends should in any way act to create difficulty at future R.S.L. meetings, as that will allow those attacked to resign with dignity. Rather elect someone else at the next anniversary meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
2] February [1827
Source of text:
AdWDDR II-VII, 5
Summary:

Pleased that JE will continue the Berlin Ephemeris. Makes various recommendations regarding it. Hopes that someone will reduce Thomas Brisbane's observations of southern heavens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[3 February 1827]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20715 (C: RS:HS 20.248)
Summary:

Has burned the certificate signed by WW and JH on behalf of election of [William] Ritchie to the R.S.L., because JH, as a R.S.L. secretary, should not endorse candidates. Discusses recent Geological Society meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Grahame
Date:
[11 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.351 (C: RS:HS 20.249)
Summary:

Comments on behavior of Charles Babbage [see JG's 1827-2-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 February 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.13
Summary:

Talks at length about the operation of the Board of Longitude and of procedures GA should know if he wishes to present proposals to the Board; JH seems to be trying to calm down GA.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georgiana Babbage
Date:
[12 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.209
Summary:

Regarding support for Charles Babbage at Oxford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hyde Wollaston
Date:
[13 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.282
Summary:

Notified Georgiana Babbage that two or three electors for professorship at Oxford favor Charles Babbage. JH not free to name them. Death of father may alter Babbage's desire for position. Meanwhile Mrs. Babbage asks that we keep 'any one favourable to C. on neutral ground.'

Contributor:
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