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DCP-LETT-5739

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
24 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 61)
Summary:

Invites RT to come to Down for a week-end.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5740

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Smith
Date:
26 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5741

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 8
Summary:

He is vexed that CD has had to write again about the index. He has no excuse except "the nature of the work itself".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5742

From:
Clair James Grece
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 221
Summary:

Asks CD to write a letter on his behalf to John Murray. CJG plans to translate Eduard Maetzner’s Englische Grammatik [1860–5] if publication can be arranged.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5743

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 64–65)
Summary:

Introduces Clair Grece who wishes to translate a work on English grammar from the German.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5744

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A30–1
Summary:

On ocelli.

Sexual differences and proportion of sexes in butterflies.

Coleoptera.

[See Descent 1: 310; 2: 132.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001585

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society
Date:
27 December 1867
Source of text:
MM/21/20, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10178

From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.65
Summary:

Would like him to accept his little work on musical sounds. F. A. Gore-Ouseley has invented some new organ pipes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10250

From:
F. A. Herschel Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.136
Summary:

Was grateful for his kind note and check. Family is still in difficulties. Employed by a Liverpool firm to sell engineering articles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10655

From:
Henry Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.28
Summary:

As JH has approved Dr. W. C. Wells's Theory of Dew he encloses extracts from the Gardeners' Chronicle to show that Wells based his paper on a false theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12704

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Pierce Butler
Date:
[5 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0119; Reel 1054
Summary:

Describes JH's theodolite by G. F. Reichenbach and offers to loan it for PB's survey [of Sinai Peninsula].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12855

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[5 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0262; Reel 1054
Summary:

Discusses WM's reply regarding commercial weight of new Standard Pound.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13058

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[2 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0471.1 & -0471.2; Reel 1055
Summary:

'Not Sent.' Clarifies values quoted in JH's letter of 5 Nov. to RS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13059

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[6 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0472; Reel 1055
Summary:

Clarifies information in postscript of JH's letter of 5 Nov. to RS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13753

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Hallowes Miller]
Date:
[6 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0107.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Measurements by A. T. Kupffer afford greater accuracy for [specific] gravity of water than values used by Henry Kater as quoted in postscript of JH's 5 Nov. [1867] letter to [WM].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13895

From:
Joseph Alfred Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0241; Reel 1087
Summary:

Please clarify differences between French metric system and JH's adaptation of British system of measurements. Willing to raise issue in Parliament, but wants to understand it well. Hopes to see Emma soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14144

From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3] December 1867
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0371; Reel 1087
Summary:

Compares values obtained by various observers in measuring new standards of weight and length.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1687

From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.173
Summary:

Note accompanying a copy of a paper by AS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1823

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0643.3 (C: RGO 6.359.545)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his useful letter [see JH's 1867-12-2]; it will be of value to the Commission on Weights and Measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1824

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0643.4 (C: RGO 6.359.548)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his clear letter [see JH's 1867-12-3] about the pound weight standards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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