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Faraday3522

From:
Alfred Austin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 October 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2/3/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6261

From:
Alfred Barry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.22
Summary:

Would like JH's presence at the distribution of prizes at the Oxford Middle Class Examination at Town Hall. His support of the scheme, which he thinks the most important event in his memory, will be very welcome.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6262

From:
Alfred Barry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.23
Summary:

Hopes he will be attending the prize-giving. Sends a resolution to be passed at the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3114

From:
Andres Poey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.171
Summary:

Has read with much pleasure JH's dissertation on meteorology published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests an English version. Sends several memoires on meteorology. Regrets not being able to send a complete set. Asks JH to send other works for the Observatory of Havana.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9700

From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.49
Summary:

Sending details of his astronomical theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3380

From:
Antoine Thompson d’Abbadie
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 January 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6458

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.226
Summary:

Is thinking of applying for the Lowndes professorship at Cambridge, and would welcome a testimonial from him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3435

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 May 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3441

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 May 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3518

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 September 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1483

From:
Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 18 jan. 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/93; MS JT/1/TYP/354-5, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1531

From:
Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 12 Juillet, 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/338, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7078

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.307
Summary:

Too busy to answer his last letter until now. His theorem on perspective is pretty and easy. Quotes one he uses. Has been busy finding the proof that every algebraic equation has a root. Has been organ tuning. Comments on the method of tuning using beats.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7079

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.308
Summary:

Congratulations and best wishes for JH's daughter recently married. If he has any material for the annual report, please send it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7081

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.309
Summary:

Queries on what meridian the year began. Returned a book to the R.S.L., which had been away for many years. Believes the R.S.L. Library was expurgated between 1734 and 1740.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7082

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.310
Summary:

Further regarding the meridian on which the year began and various times throughout the world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7083

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.311
Summary:

Regarding the recent eclipse of the sun. Has not been able to guess all his riddles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7086

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.312
Summary:

Has examined the animalcules JH sent. Sends some of his own obtained from ink! Regarding the variations of spelling his own name.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7087

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.313
Summary:

Has not heard from him for a long time. Hopes all is well. Elizabeth Baily has had a stroke but is slowly mending. Arthur Baily has committed suicide. His own wife and children are at the seaside. Hopes JH or one of his daughters will write soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7088

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.314
Summary:

Sees that JH was the author of the article on mathematics in Brewster's Encyclopaedia. Comments on this and Isaac Newton's authorship of the notes and review of the Commercium Epistolicum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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