From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 175
Summary:
Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.
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Reports his successful meeting with Hussey Vivian, whose full support of the fixed observatories is to be communicated to the R.S.L. Council by ES. Says that Vivian desires to read the memorials of the B.A.A.S. and the R.S.L. Will look into the changes in design of the magnetometers. Suggests budgets for the observatories.
Offers JH professorship of astronomy at Oxford and hopes to see him at meeting of Meteorological Committee.