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DCP-LETT-1466F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1852–60]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3)
Summary:

Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1469

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.

Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Jan 1852]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22
Summary:

Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1472

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
23 Jan [1852?]
Source of text:
Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin , QH365 .O2 1859)
Summary:

Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1472A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:

The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001125

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
19 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/165, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001126

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
20 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/166, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001127

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
20 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/167, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001128

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
21 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/168, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001129

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
22 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/169, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001130

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
23 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/170, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001498

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
4 January 1852
Source of text:
MM/19/101, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10901

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.250
Summary:

Will the Herschels come to dinner on Thursday the 13th with one of their daughters?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10902

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.251
Summary:

Will he join them at dinner tomorrow; regrets he was prevented from being with them on the 13th due to a cold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1154

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[1852 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.11
Summary:

Is trying to help RF understand the difference between the dynamics of solid bodies moving over each other and the dynamics of moving fluids, both water and air.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12897

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Benedetto Pistrucci
Date:
[9 January 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0309; Reel 1093
Summary:

Denies BP a request concerning his acceptance of the office of Chief Medalist. Discusses BP's reluctance to accept the office without being awarded a place of residence by the Treasury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12957

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[20 January 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0369; Reel 1054
Summary:

Disagreement with W. H. Sykes over whether to publish observations by General [Cullen?] that Sykes claims have never been reviewed or read [to R.S.L.]. Encloses copy of JH's reply to Sykes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13088

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[12 January 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0482.1; Reel 1055
Summary:

W. T. Brande is willing to give up professorship [of chemistry] at Royal Institution to accept combined duties of superintendent of coining and die departments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13089

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[12 January 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0482.2; Reel 1055
Summary:

Explains large disbursement of silver to Moneyers and to Melter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13090

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[14 January 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0482.3; Reel 1055
Summary:

Returns Robert Mushet's note. Changed title of Mr. Reynolds's office from melter to "Senior Clerk and Melter.' Adjustments to salary of W. T. Brande.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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