From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lovell Augustus Reeve
Date:
[before 14 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Melvill 1900: 352
Summary:
Happy to support LAR’s application to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thompson
Date:
[1 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add.L.b.1: 24)
Summary:
Encloses diagram illustrating difference between Chthamalus and Balanus. Specimens sent. Finds no Chthamalus in WT’s collection.
Has read with much interest WT’s book [The natural history of Ireland, vol. 1 (1849)].
Recommends E. S. Dixon’s book [Ornamental and domestic poultry; their history and management (1848)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
2 Mar [1849]
Source of text:
Piasa SA, Paris (dealers) (2008)
Summary:
CD is obliged to put off his journey to Paris because of ill-health, but this will give CD more time to study the specimens.
Values HM-E’s opinion on CD’s barnacle work more than any man’s in Europe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72)
Summary:
The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A7–A8
Summary:
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 [Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73)
Summary:
Reports progress with water-cure. Describes the treatment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 113
Summary:
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
30 Mar 1849
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:
Reports on developments in recent years, his father’s death, his own poor health, publications, and work on barnacles. Asks SC to collect some specimens, if he lives near the sea.
News of FitzRoy and B. J. Sulivan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
3 Mar 1849
Source of text:
95, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
7 Mar 1849
Source of text:
97, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
11 Mar 1849
Source of text:
99, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
17 Mar 1849
Source of text:
101, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
Date:
[19 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.202 & 23.61
Summary:
Has just been able to consult Sir William Herschel's papers. Regarding Yvon Villarceau's method of measuring the orbits. May be like his own, which he briefly outlines.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.203
Summary:
Would like to ask a few more questions regarding JH's method outlined in his last letter. Can UL submit it to the Institute?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
Date:
[25 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.204
Summary:
Found his letter on return from London. Would be pleased for UL to submit part of his letter of 19 Mar. to the Institute. Further comments on part of this letter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.319
Summary:
Has just received JH's letter giving details of an interesting auroral phenomenon. Has been experimenting with wire insulates. Henry Lawson has observed streams of red light resembling aurora.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.160.78
Summary:
Tells GA about the internal counterpoise system in use in some German telescope mountings, and includes a diagram; JH knows nothing about chilling speculum metal [see GA's 1849-3-7].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[4 March 1849]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0433; Reel 1055
Summary:
Received news today of JS's arrival in Bombay. Describes conflict as 'Armageddon.' Family news. John Stewart returned from China and leaves soon to meet Matilda [Grahame] in Paris. [Richard] Jones's concern for JS is genuine. Eneas Mackintosh obtained cadetship for JH's son John at Addiscombe.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.248
Summary:
Asks JH's opinion about GA's plan not to print a separate volume of magnetic and meteorological observations for 1848.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 March 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.250
Summary:
Some concerns about GA's intent of attaching magnetic and meteorological observations to the R.A.S.'s Astronomical Observations [see GA's 1849-3-28].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project