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DCP-LETT-576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
[c. 15 Aug 1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:

Questions GNS on remains found in caves on Caldy Island. [CD’s pencilled queries sent via Frances Allen].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-577

From:
Frances (Fanny) Allen
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
19 Aug [1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:

Forwards list of questions from CD relating to GNS’s paper on Caldy [see 576].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000520

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
10/22 August 1840
Source of text:
MM/10/44, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10735

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.88
Summary:

Is grateful for the suggested emendations to his paper. Comments on the action of iodine on silver and its oxide. When can he expect publication of his paper? Has noted a peculiar property in the calorific rays when copying engravings. Encloses some Daguerreotype papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11022

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.364
Summary:

Is not well and is planning a holiday. Will be in the vicinity of Hawkhurst next Saturday and would like to visit JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11591

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[14 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.64
Summary:

G. B. Airy needs HL to send him the information used to set up colonial magnetic observatories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12078

From:
John Murray [Sr.?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.445
Summary:

Sending check and a note from the editor of the Quarterly Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1235

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.68
Summary:

Thanks RH for a sample of Daguerreotype paper. Comments on some aspects of the action of 'thermic' rays and 'chemical' rays in photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12356

From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.213
Summary:

Magnetic observations have been made regularly for a year and a half at the college at Cambridge by W. C. Bond. After JH's letter another set of instruments has been obtained to make another series of observations. Money from Hugh Smithson has been loaned to Arkansas. Comments on red auroral light seen. With the more frequent steamship service now hopes for quicker communications from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12572

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Thomas Napier
Date:
1840-[8-14 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.75
Summary:

Is trying to reduce the ill feeling between GN and Andries Stockenström relating to the governing of the Cape colony; JH feels hampered by limited information.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel167

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.693.94
Summary:

Asks for JH's help in trying to determine the likely cost of making magnetic observations at Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel168

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 August 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.693.96
Summary:

Provides information [see GA's 1840-8-13] based on equipping the Breslau Observatory; also comments on lawyers, meteor showers, and photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel169

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.693.98
Summary:

Thanks JH for his help [see JH's 1840-8-14], and tells JH about a visit to Greenwich by Charles Wheatstone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1745

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0627.14
Summary:

The Royal Observatory wants to make magnetic observations at Greenwich, and it appears will need to make some building alterations. Estimates are required immediately by the Admiralty/Treasury, and GA seeks JH's assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1894

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Henry Bunbury]
Date:
[13 August 1840]
Source of text:
WT 67624.75 (C: RS:HS 5.122 &22.63)
Summary:

Returns papers dealing with the treatment of Andries Stockenström by Sir George Napier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1928

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bunbury
Date:
[1 August 1840]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.5
Summary:

Requests documents about the disagreement between George Napier and Andries Stockenström, which developed at the Cape. In the course of this request, JH expresses his feelings on the matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2466

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 August [1840?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.320
Summary:

Reports on letter from Humphrey Lloyd and latest information from [J. C.] Ross's voyage. Has received JH's meteorological plates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2821

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.101
Summary:

Will give Humphrey Lloyd's and his own latest magnetic data to JH for use in JH's report to the B.A.A.S. Observations continue in Milan. Year-long observations will soon be completed at Dublin Observatory. Proposes 400-page publication of simultaneous observations. Mentions Lloyd's insistence on processing incoming data himself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3313

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[10 August 1840]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 42 (C: RS:HS 22.62)
Summary:

Explains efforts at using a makeshift apparatus for 'fixing the spectrum.' Discusses current confusion and ultimate hope surrounding JF's meteorological recommendations. In a postscript, notes observations of meteors in Persei.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3596

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1840]
Source of text:
St. Andrews LB III, 120-2 (C: RS:HS 7.296)
Summary:

Thanks for JH's letters and the paper on photography with special reference to the effects of heat. Was present at the R.S.L. during consideration of a national observatory. Would like JH's opinion. Is working on a supplementary report on meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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