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Herschel8356

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.158
Summary:

No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9623

From:
William Fairbairn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.363
Summary:

Invitation to stay with them should he visit the B.A.A.S. meeting at Manchester.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1149

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
18 March 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.94-96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1192

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
23 March 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.163-166, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1468

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
25 March 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.271, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC148

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 March 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Asa Gray regarding Alphonse De Candolle [ADC] & his endorsement of Muller creating eponymous synonyms every time he adjust the limits of a species [see also JDH146]. Also comments on ADC's responsibility for the PRODROMUS SYSTEMATIS NATURALIS REGNI VEGETABILIS & on his opinion of ADC as a weak, vain man. Discusses his own recently completed work organising the order Cornaceae [for GENERA PLANTARUM] with reference to: a Himalayan Nyassa he found in Sikkim & Khasia, also mentions Benthamia, Garrya, Bursinopetalum, Mastixia, Torricellia, & Leranthaceae being relegated to Santalaceae. Cucurbitaceae are being printed & [George] Bentham is working on Umbelliferae & Araliaceae. JDH has been nominated for the Presidency of the British Association in Norwich, he fears it will interfere with his plans for an American trip. JDH & [Thomas] Thomson are to be jurors at the Paris [International Horticulture] Exhibition. Discusses the link between class & politics in Britain, predicts the future of political influence in the United States of America & points out the lack of representation of the British lower classes & aristocracy alike in the USA press. Notes that people & the press are more apt to complain about small problems, recently it was snow preparedness in London & bad ferry service in New York. Settlement of the 'Herbarium' affair & consequent payment will allow JDH to stay on in his position at Kew. Darwin is working hard at his 'big book' [THE DESCENT OF MAN[?]]. JDH wants to be informed about the progress of a young man who wrote an article on Agassiz.

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Hooker Project
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