From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846–54]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters)
Summary:
Lateral teeth in Arcadae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 319
Summary:
Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson
Date:
[28 Jan or 4 Feb] 1846
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
Enclosed MS by Lieut. W. Christopher misrepresents CD’s views. Contains errors in zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 5
Summary:
Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
[16 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D16)
Summary:
Thanks JWL for having acceded to CD’s wish to acquire a piece of land to provide a sheltered walk at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 1c–2
Summary:
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 53
Summary:
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39.2: 128–9, DAR 43.1: 66–7
Summary:
Sends identifications of CD’s Bahia Blanca fossil shells [see 830].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J[ohn] Gould
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.110
Summary:
Sending some extra large trout caught by the Miller, together with the 'local' trout so that he can compare them.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.327
Summary:
Regarding the strange appearance of the comet of Biela. Will observe the double star as soon as he has an opportunity.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.455
Summary:
Regarding a botanical garden at the Cape and suitable staff. Would like to join with JH in a memorial to the Colonial Office.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.456
Summary:
Has heard nothing from him regarding the Cape garden. Wrote to the Colonial Office advising that the Cape garden should be similar to that at Ceylon. Hopes he agrees that Wynberg is the most likely spot.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[5 January 1846]
Source of text:
WT 68037.6 (C: RS:HS 10.121 & 22.264)
Summary:
RH's experiments are extremely interesting and deserve to be pursued. Comments on experiments made by Michael Faraday and others relating to the formation of crystals in a magnetic field and the effect such crystals have on polarized light.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1846 to 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.35
Summary:
Comments on proofs of WW's German translations. JH recommends that the magnetic observations already made should be reduced to show some results, rather than adding more observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.133
Summary:
Observatory work slowed since William Mann's absence due to head injury. C. P. Smyth's replacement not yet arrived. Regrets lack of assistants; wants to complete triangulation at Bushman Flat.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Leonard Romer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.23
Summary:
A notice of meeting of the B.A.A.S. coal distribution map committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
A. B. Orlebar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.181
Summary:
Circular Magnetic results. Observations of solar spots. Determining Longitude.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[1846 to 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0268; Reel 1054
Summary:
W. S. Stratford, G. B. Airy, and JH agree that B.A.A.S. should publish star catalogs of N. L. Lacaille and J. J. L. Lalande without using government money. Proposes distribution to observatories. [JH annotation: Committee added two more observatories to list.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Venn
Date:
[1846 to 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0486; Reel 1055
Summary:
Hopes Sir R. H. Inglis explained JH's delay in answering. Missionaries have obligation to preserve unwritten languages. Suggests 'Phonotypic' system of [Isaac] Pitman, with some alterations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1846 to 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0529.1; Reel 1093
Summary:
Reminds JH of new format in Nautical Almanac to represent symbols of late F. W. Bessel. Thomas Henderson was working with unknown quantity [in preparing N. L. Lacaille's star catalog].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Barthes & Lowell1
- Bentham, George5
- Darwin, C. R.8
- Falconer, [Hugh?]1
- Faraday, Michael2
- Forster, Thomas I. M.1
- Gould, J[ohn]1
- Gray, J. E.1
- Herschel, John44
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie8
- Hind, John R.1
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Hooker, W. J.3
- Hunt, Robert1
- Jackson, Julian1
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)1
- Maclear, Thomas1
- Merz, Georg1
- Murchison, R. I.1
- Murchison, Roderick Impey2
- Orbigny, Alcide d’1
- Orlebar, A. B.1
- Pritchard, Charles1
- R.A.S., the1
- Redfield, William C.1
- Romer, Leonard1
- Sabine, Edward4
- Schönbein, Christian F.1
- Sedgwick, Adam1
- Sheepshanks, Richard7
- Smyth, William Henry1
- Sowerby, G. B.2
- Unidentified1
- Venn, Henry1
- Weber, Wilhelm Eduard1
- Whewell, William1
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