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DCP-LETT-5417

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 346
Summary:

Sends sheets of Origin [4th edition] for CD to correct [for 3d German edition?].

Still has 600 copies of Orchids, but deficit reduced to £30.

Undertakes to pay two-thirds of profits of the [fourth] edition of Origin as soon as one-half of the copies are sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5481F

From:
Kent Church Penitentiary Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 92
Summary:

Appeal for funds for paying of the Society’s debt, and for an annual subscription.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11166

From:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.56
Summary:

Sending a pamphlet on the quality of refracted light. Hopes JH will communicate it to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11167

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.57
Summary:

Has now received his pamphlet. Does not agree with its findings, but will submit it to the R.S.L., though it cannot be printed in R.S.P.T. as it has already appeared elsewhere. Comments on some of EK's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11444

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.357
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1433

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H709 (ACCS: RS:HS 19.157b)
Summary:

Forwarding copy of paper by Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues; EK purports to show that movement of a star toward or away from an observer will affect its refraction in an achromatic prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1434

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.62
Summary:

Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1435

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[28 February 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H710
Summary:

Agrees with GS's assessment of Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper [see GS's 1866-2-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel16

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.444
Summary:

About William Whewell's accident, and the ideas of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss on the behavior of light due to the motion of a star source.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2568

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.475
Summary:

Says William Whewell has fallen from his horse and has been injured. Thanks JH for a paper he signed for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2569

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[26 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.143
Summary:

Has heard about William Whewell's accident. Hopes he will recover, but knows his advanced age may hinder this. Wishes WS to send news of progress.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2570

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.476
Summary:

William Whewell has gotten up to walk several times. The left side of his body and face is still 'not quite right.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3343

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.149
Summary:

Reports on paper [R.S.P.T., 156, 181-] by [William] Huggins on spectra of certain nebulae with mode of determining their brightness. Doubts some presuppositions, but regards paper as fit for publication in R.S.P.T.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3510

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866?]-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399c
Summary:

Corrects misinformation about refraction and dispersion of mercury ethyl and mercury methyl.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4082

From:
William Lloyd Birbeck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Offers to purchase scientific manuscripts for JH at a sale in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4091

From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.357
Summary:

Makes suggestions for the solution to the three point probability problem using integrals of infinity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4114

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.98
Summary:

Informs JH, Charles Babbage, and James South that they are the surviving original members of the R.A S. Requests JH write an account of the R.A.S.'s founding. Discusses the evidence of the 'personal will' of God in creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4160

From:
B. W. S. Vallack
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.417a
Summary:

Responds to JH's criticisms of his binocular telescope plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4164

From:
George Thurnell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.437
Summary:

Praises JH's essay 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.' Believes C. P. Smyth's theories concerning the Great Pyramid being a standard of measurement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4289

From:
Goodwin Kilburne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Announces a committee meeting for a volunteer group.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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