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Thomas Andrews
John Frederick William Herschel
Copy of a letter. Thanks Thomas Andrews for papers on heat of acid-base reactions.
21 April 1843 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel 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.
21 May 1856 Sender: Thomas Andrews Reference number: HS/1/344
Copy of a letter. Formal note of thanks for Thomas Andrews's paper on ozone.
12 May 1856 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel 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.
24 January 1871 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel 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.
31 January 1871 Sender: Thomas Andrews Reference number: HS/1/346
Draft letter. Regarding patents, and quoting the results of experiments by foreigners without acknowledging the sources.
5 February 1871 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel 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.
11 February 1871 Sender: Thomas Andrews 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.
20 February 1871 Sender: Thomas Andrews 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.
11 April 1871 Sender: Thomas Andrews 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.
24 January 1871 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel 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.
5 February 1871 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/345
Copy of a letter. Thanks Thomas Andrews for information on ice calorimetric work.
22 February 1871 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/346