From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 18
Summary:
Family news from Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 19
Summary:
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 Mar [1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57)
Summary:
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[31 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56)
Summary:
Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/176, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
7 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
21 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177A, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.376
Summary:
Has just confirmed the Hawkhurst apportionment; comments on this. Encloses a copy of the notice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.125
Summary:
Sending a description of the observatory he has erected, containing an equatorially mounted Newtonian reflector. Has high opinion of its efficiency. Has detected a sixth star near the trapezium of Orionis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.114
Summary:
Comments on WL's finding a sixth star in the trapezium of Orion [see WL's 1842-3-10]; lists other catalogues that identify that star.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.131
Summary:
Received JH's constellation reform paper. Reports on triangulation at Zwartland and observations of possible variable stars. Obelisk at Feldhausen erected; relates controversies over the site.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.402
Summary:
Sends a memoir he has scribbled off for next Wednesday's meeting. Would like JH's advice on several points.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.403
Summary:
Many thanks for JH's explanations, which gave satisfaction to the geologists. Gives two queries of his own for which he would like clarification. Can they print JH's Alpine phenomena memoir?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Minna Mädler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1842-3-28 to 1842-4-
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.15
Summary:
Has only just received JH's parcel dispatched some six months ago, due to lack of transport during the winter months. JH's poem on the Old Telescope has been in great demand. Pass the enclosed to Miss Hamilton. Would like an autograph of JH for her album.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.294
Summary:
About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
'Q in a Corner'
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0908; Reel 1083
Summary:
Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.242
Summary:
Sends works on meteorology and instructions for natural periodic phenomena. More proselytes in horary observations. Asks for JH's recommendations for those observing meteors in the other hemisphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 12.17
Summary:
Believes that the operative rays in JH's thermographic process are neither 'calorific' nor 'thermal'.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
9] March [1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.4; Reel 1058
Summary:
Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.101 (C: RGO 6.340.341)
Summary:
Regarding JH's receipt of the 'Standard' reports. Remarks on the electrometer and barometer in the recent storm.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project