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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 13 letters from 1843–1871

5 letters from Thomas Andrews; 8 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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Copy of a letter. Thanks Thomas Andrews for papers on heat of acid-base reactions.

Reference number: HS/22/152
1844

Birth of Matilda Rose Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

1844

1845

Sir John Herschel serves as President of the British Association

1845

1846

Birth of Francisca Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

1846

Sir John Herschel serves his second term as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society

1846: To 1847

1847

Sir John Herschel serves his second term as President of the Royal Astronomical Society

1847: Until 1849

Sir John Herschel receives the Copley Medal

1847: Sir John Herschel receives the Copley Medal of the Royal Society "For his work entitled Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837 and 1838, at the Cape of Good Hope; being a completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825"

Sir John Herschel publishes a paper

1847: Sir John Herschel publishes Results of astronomical observations made during the years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope; being a completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825.

1848

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

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

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

1856

Autograph letter signed by sender, incomplete. Thanks for John Frederick William Herschel's kind comments on Thomas Andrews's paper on ozone.

Reference number: HS/1/344

Copy of a letter. Formal note of thanks for Thomas Andrews's paper on ozone.

Reference number: HS/23/171
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)

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. Thanking him for his paper on heat developed in combination of acids and bases. Commenting on the various makes of calorimeters.

Reference number: HS/1/345

Autograph letter signed by sender. Replying to John Frederick William Herschel's letter of 24 Jan. 1871. Thanking him for his suggestions. Has not seen John Frederick William Herschel's Cape Observations. Has seen report of R. W. Bunsen's experiments. Comments on these experiments.

Reference number: HS/1/346

Draft letter. Regarding patents, and quoting the results of experiments by foreigners without acknowledging the sources.

Reference number: HS/1/347

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has notified J. C. Poggendorf of John Frederick William Herschel's notes on calorimeters. Discussion of Michael Faraday's indebtedness to John Frederick William Herschel's Prelim. Discourse.

Reference number: HS/1/348

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has received a letter from J. C. Poggendorf. Further reports on his experiments with gas.

Reference number: HS/1/349

Autograph letter signed by sender. Encloses notice which J. C. Poggendorf has published regarding John Frederick William Herschel. Details of further modifications in his experimental apparatus.

Reference number: HS/1/350

Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanking him for his paper on heat developed in combination of acids and bases. Commenting on the various makes of calorimeters.

Reference number: HS/24/344

Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Regarding patents, and quoting the results of experiments by foreigners without acknowledging the sources.

Reference number: HS/24/345

Copy of a letter. Thanks Thomas Andrews for information on ice calorimetric work.

Reference number: HS/24/346

Copy of a letter. Thanks Thomas Andrews for further information [see John Frederick William Herschel's 1871-2-22] on Thomas Andrews's work on ice calorimeter.

Reference number: HS/24/347