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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 22 letters from 1848–1851

13 letters from Frederick William Beechey; 9 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is formed, by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rosetti and others

1848

Napoleon III is elected first President of France

20 December 1848

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has been prevented from working for the past ten days due to pains in the head, but will send his manual to John Frederick William Herschel as soon as he can get it arranged and copied.

Reference number: HS/4/9

Autograph letter signed by sender. Regarding his own publication on hydrography and welcoming any suggestion from John Frederick William Herschel on various points.

Reference number: HS/4/10

Autograph letter signed by sender. Is pleased to hear that his paper is of some use. Various queries regarding the work in question.

Reference number: HS/4/11

Autograph letter signed by sender. Is sending a sketch of methods to make a scale to meet increasing pressure at depths. Perhaps John Frederick William Herschel could suggest a suitable instrument.

Reference number: HS/4/12

Draft letter. Sending suggestions for a sympiesometer.

Reference number: HS/4/13

Draft letter. Further suggestion for the sympiesometer.

Reference number: HS/4/14

Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for his suggestions and gives a possible modification.

Reference number: HS/4/15

Autograph letter signed by sender. Is going to get one of the instruments that John Frederick William Herschel suggested manufactured. Would he therefore send the dimensions of the instrument.

Reference number: HS/4/16

Autograph letter signed by sender. Further queries about the manufacture of the sympiesometer. Will be moving to Shirehampton in a few days time.

Reference number: HS/4/17

Draft letter. Answers to Frederick W. Beechey's queries concerning the sympiesometer [lightweight barometer].

Reference number: HS/4/18

Draft letter. Further points regarding the sympiesometer.

Reference number: HS/4/19

Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for his suggestions on the instrument, which E. A. L. Negretti is working on. Gives some more details of the instrument.

Reference number: HS/4/20

Autograph letter signed by sender. Francis Beaufort thinks that Frederick W. Beechey's essay in the Admiralty Manual should include a few lines on the height of the waves of the ocean. Frederick W. Beechey has asked Beaufort to write these lines.

Reference number: HS/4/21

Sketch of a piezometer in Herschel's hand. Instrument sketched at the request of Captain Frederick William Beechey as a modification of existing apparatus to measure pressure in depth, in relation to his 1848 tidal survey of the Irish coasts, North Sea and English Channel. Likely the instrument discussed and sketch sent as an enclosure in HS/4/12 and HS/4/20.

Reference number: HS/19/189

Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Sending suggestions for a sympiesometer.

Reference number: HS/23/27

Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Further suggestion for the sympiesometer.

Reference number: HS/23/28

Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Answers to Frederick W. Beechey's queries concerning the sympiesometer [lightweight barometer].

Reference number: HS/23/31

Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Further points regarding the sympiesometer.

Reference number: HS/23/32
1849

Sir John Herschel publishes Outlines of Astronomy.

1849

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has at last received his letter and withdrawn the index.

Reference number: HS/4/22
1850

Sir John Herschel is appointed Master of the Mint

1850

1851

Sir John Herschel serves as juror of the Great Exhibition

1851

Autograph letter signed by sender. Considers John Frederick William Herschel's form preferable to his own so will omit his. As John Frederick William Herschel is in London perhaps he would call and see his tidal stream theory, as he is free most days after 3 p.m.

Reference number: HS/4/23

Autograph letter signed by sender. Is enclosing the revised sheets to save time. Suggestions regarding these. Is sending his tidal paper to Airy for his perusal.

Reference number: HS/4/24

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has been absent down the Bristol Channel so did not receive his communication until his return to Portishead. Does not wish to delay publication but would like to see the manuscript before it goes to press. Encloses answers to some of John Frederick William Herschel's queries. Has the chart of currents ready.

Reference number: HS/4/25