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Herschel60

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1839-12-16 to 1840-1
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.632
Summary:

Brief note supporting GA's medal recipient ideas [see GA's 1839-12-16], and adding some of JH's ideas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6043

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.169
Summary:

Is sorry JH was unable to be with them at the Anniversary meeting. Has had a further letter from the Admiralty regarding a pendulum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6044

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.170
Summary:

Has had no further tidings of the pendulum so has drafted the enclosed letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7993

From:
E. Willes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.260
Summary:

Still invalid. Offers to be godfather for JH's new child [Maria]. When does JH plan to move from Slough?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8364

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[J. T.?]
Date:
[1839 to 1854]-12-16
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.163
Summary:

Write to Richard Sheepshanks for permission to copy engraving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8536

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[29 December 1839]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (C: RS:HS 22.35)
Summary:

Thanks FB for a variety of observational material, including establishment of standards of measurement [letter completed 1840-1-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8825

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[4 December 1839]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/22
Summary:

Discusses L. J. M. Daguerre's patent application, JH's experiments in making light sensitive paper, and JH's determination to give up photographic researches so as to return to preparation of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8990

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Lord John Russell[?]
Date:
[10 December 1839]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.14
Summary:

Discusses JH's efforts to secure applications for teaching positions at the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope. Lists a number of candidates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8991

From:
Thomas McBean
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 December 1839]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.15
Summary:

Requests an appointment to see JH in regard to TM's candidacy for a position teaching at the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8992

From:
Lord John Russell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1839]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.16
Summary:

Replies to JH's letter of 1839-12-10. States that George Napier has informed him that four positions are to be filled. Asks JH which candidates he would recommend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8993

From:
Thomas McBean
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1839]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.17
Summary:

Cannot afford to visit JH and has no testimonials to support his candidacy for a teaching position at the Cape. Describes his attainments and pleads for consideration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC279

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mary and Elizabeth Hooker
Date:
25 December 1839
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.11-13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

As it is Christmas day JDH wanted to write to his sisters, Elizabeth 'Bessy' & Mary Harriet Hooker. Recounts the progress of the expedition over the last 3 months. Describes stops at Madeira's Cape Braza & Bay of Funchal & his visits to Mr Muir's house. Plants in the island's gardens incl: Vines, Daturas, Fuchsias, Chinarose, Hibiscus & Heliotrope, many fruits, & on the cliffs chestnut trees. JDH describes a type of small guitar made by the Madeira natives. JDH got rheumatism on a trip to the mountains & Captain [James Clark] Ross tried to keep him on the ship but JDH went ashore to visit Mrs Montgomery Hampton, now married to a Dr Renton, & other acquaintances incl. Mr Halley & a brother of Miss Shortridge. He describes their visit to the Funchal nunneries, Santa Clara & the convent of the Incarnation, where he bought artificial flowers made of duck feathers. Next they went to Tenerife, JDH describes a visit to the Spanish town of Santa Cruz where Lord Nelson lost his arm. At the Cape Verde Islands the 'Erebus' anchored at Porto Praia a Portuguese town on the island of St Jago [Santiago], a very desolate place except for coconut trees & some oases of fruit trees. JDH collected plant specimens in the heat with the help of resident freed black slaves. JDH describes a trip through the mountainous interior of St Jago to St Domingo, during which he saw baobab trees, a beautiful kingfisher, Gallina or Guineafowl, Acacias, Castor Oil Trees, hawks, wild monkeys & tiger cats. At St Domingo sugar cane, maize, oranges, Cassava & other tropical vegetables are cultivated. They are now sailing towards St Helena via the ocean near Pernambuco, Brazil because of the trade winds. En route they have seen St Paul's Rocks & Trindada [Trindade & Martim Vaz] only notable for the birdlife: terns & boobies etc. After St Helena they will visit Tristan d'Acunha, Cape Horn, Kerguelen's Land, Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand & Antarctica. JDH spends the voyage drawing sea animals.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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