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DCP-LETT-2618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[1856–7]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001414

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
17 January 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/11, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel1158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:

Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13812

From:
Charles De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 January [1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0162; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encourages JH to contest Cambridge University seat in Parliament, following death of Henry Goulburn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14150

From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0376; Reel 1087
Summary:

TS will be chairman of Decimal Coinage commission. Do majority of bankers queried by JH favor this decimal system? Death of William Whewell's wife, Cordelia, sister-in-law of TS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1936

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1856 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.13
Summary:

A note indicating JH's willingness to say a few words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2538

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.448 (C: RS:HS 23.185)
Summary:

Discusses AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. Wishes to have the completed work sent to him and sends congratulations on its completion. JH's health is improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7043

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.280
Summary:

Wishing him well for the new year. Hears JH has visited the East India College. Sends a theorem. H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) amuses himself by finding the laws of central force for curves. Has been finding information on a nephew of Isaac Newton. George Stanhope (6th Earl of Chesterfield) and T. A. W. Parker (9th Earl of Macclesfield) were pupils of Abraham De Moivre.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1170

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1856?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.134, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall1181

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
4th January-1856
Source of text:
MS RR/3/157, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1182

From:
James Bevington
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14th. January 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/152, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1183

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
15th Jan. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/865, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1184

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
17th Jan.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/866, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1185

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
18th Jan. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/616, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1186

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
26th Jan 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1552, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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