Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer)
Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence on the Observatory, 1827 - 1845
Correspondence on the Standards Commission, 1868 - 1871
Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1835 - 1848
Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1861 - 1866
Correspondence with Nautical Almanac Office, 1827 - 1848
Correspondence with scientific bodies, 1836 - 1848
Correspondence with scientific societies, 1865 - 1868
Correspondence with the Standards Commission, 1838 - 1848
Correspondence with the following members of the Standards Commission: F. Baily, C.R.D. Bethune, F. Gilbert, Sir J.F.W. Herschel, Sir J.W. Lubbock, J.G.S. Lefevre, W.H. Miller, the Marquis of Northampton, the Revd G. Peacock, the Revd R. Sheepshanks and Lord Wrottesley. The volume includes copies of printed papers from the Standards Commission and several diagrams of spirit barrels.
Correspondence with the Standards Commission, 1848 - 1857
Correspondence with the following members of the Standards Commission: Sir J.F.W. Herschel, J.G.S. Lefevre, Sir J.W. Lubbock, J.C. Miller, the Revd G. Peacock, the Earl of Rosse, the Revd R. Sheepshanks and Lord Wrottesley.
Discussion of star places, 1756 - 1848
Correspondence on the positions of stars, with their errors, new discoveries, comparisons of star places (i.e. with the Tabula Regiomontana) and the motion of variable stars. The correspondents include F. Baily, Sir F. Beaufort, J.F.W. Herschel, J. Glaisher, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, T. Galloway, W.S. Stratford, J.R. Hind, W.R. Dawes, Sir G. Everest and W. Lassell. The papers also include various parts of star catalogues.
Discussion of star places, 1864 - 1874
Discussion of star places, 1847 - 1868
Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1825 - 1826
Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.
Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1824 - 1828
Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.
General correspondence 'N' and 'O', 1968-08 - 1972
General correspondence with, among others, the Duke of Norfolk; the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 'Nature'; the Revd Father D.J.K. O'Connell, S.J., Specola Vaticana, Castel Gandolfo, Rome; the University of British Colombia; and the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. The subjects include Sir Richard Woolley's review of 'The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon' and of 'Herschel at the Cape: Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel'.
Harton pendulum experiments, 1854 - 1877
Correspondence, letters A-L, regarding pendulum experiments at Harton, including a letter to the Academie des Sciences, correspondence with the Admiralty, and correspondence with, among others, J. Anderson, G.A. Biddell, J.R. Hind, R.C. Carrington, Professor J. Challis, G.S. Criswick, E. Dunkin, W. Ellis, Professor M. Faraday, J. Glaisher, E. Green, Sir John Herschel, Lt Col. James and M.J. Johnson.
Letter concerning two chronometers to be given to Sir John Herschel for an expedition to the interior of Africa, 1833-10-30
Sent by Francis Beaufort to John Pond.
Letter from J.F.W. Herschel to Dr Thomas Young, 1829-01-08
On assisting [William] Richardson in reducing the observations taken at Parramatta Observatory under Sir Thomas Brisbane.
Letter from John Frederick William Herschel to [H. von Boguslawski, Prussia], 1844-05-06
Letter written on behalf of his aunt [Caroline Herschel] thanking him for sending a letter on her 95th birthday and sheets of his new astronomical ephemeris ‘Uranus’, and also discussing Halley’s Comet.
Letters from observatories, 1848 - 1852
Letters from observatories, 1849
Letters from observatories, 1852 - 1858
Letters from observatories, 1859 - 1861
Letters from observatories, 1864 - 1869
Letters to Francis Baily, 1828 - 1843
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