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Georg Adolf Erman
John Frederick William Herschel
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. Sending one of his own books, which he hopes John Frederick William Herschel will study.
12 December 1848 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/102
1849
Sir John Herschel publishes Outlines of Astronomy.
1849
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. Sends a paper. Comments on temperature at low altitudes and listing papers known on this subject.
9 May 1851 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/103
1855
Birth of Constance Anne Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart
1855
Sir John Herschel is elected Foreign Associate of the Institut de France
1855
Sir John Herschel resigns from his position as Master of the Mint
1855
1860
Sir John Herschel publishes in the Proceedings of the Royal Society
1860: Sir John Herschel publishes some “Remarks on colour-blindness" extracted from a referee report on Pole’s paper on the same subject.
1861
Death of Margaret Louisa Marshall, née Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart
1861
William Morris established the decorative design firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company (later Morris & Company)
1861
Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations as a three-volume book
1861
Sir John Herschel publishes Physical Geography as part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
1861
Abraham Lincoln begins his term as President of the United States
4 March 1861
1866
Sir John Herschel publishes his translation of Homer’s Iliad
1866
1867
Sir John Herschel publishes Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects
1867
1868
Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
1 February 1868
William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1 December 1868
1869
Jules Verne serializes Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
1869: (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers)
1870
Autograph letter signed by sender. Sends two of his publications, one on terrestrial magnetism at Berlin. Comments on the results, and wonders if John Frederick William Herschel would enlist the help of the B.A.A.S. to finance further studies by H. J. R. Petersen.
28 April 1870 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/104
Autograph letter signed by sender. Did not receive John Frederick William Herschel's letters as he was away from the University. Rejoices at his news of the B.A.A.S. grant.
20 October 1870 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/105
Autograph letter signed by sender. Sends an article from the Astronomische Nachrichten acknowledging the assistance of the B.A.A.S. to two Prussian scientists.
20 December 1870 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/106
Copy of a letter. About an application to the B.A.A.S. for a grant to fund the calculations related to reducing the magnetic observations of 1847-48.
24 May 1870 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/315
Copy of a letter. Writes to clarify the actions of the B.A.A.S. [see John Frederick William Herschel's 1870-5-24].
7 October 1870 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/332
Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Corrects a misunderstanding about the date to which magnetic observations are to be reduced.
12 October 1870 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/7/7
1871
Death of Sir John Herschel, at Collingwood, Kent
11 May 1871
Sir John Herschel is buried at Westminster Abbey
19 May 1871
Autograph letter signed by sender. Outlines the recent work in terrestrial magnetism by H. T. R. Petersen and himself. Comments on their results.
2 March 1871 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/108
Translation into English of the preceding item, in Herschel's hand. Outlines the recent work in terrestrial magnetism by H. T. R. Petersen and himself. Comments on their results.
2 March 1871 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/109
Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for assistance in settling matters with the B.A.A.S.; comments about travel plans and magnetic observations.
27 March 1871 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/111
Autograph letter signed by sender. Regrets that his bad handwriting caused John Frederick William Herschel to misread some of his remarks. Will try to produce a clearer exposition of his results. Comments on his expositions.
31 March 1871 Sender: Georg Adolf Erman Reference number: HS/7/112