From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 June – 10 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 13
Summary:
Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[2 June 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.60)
Summary:
Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].
Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 93
Summary:
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 94
Summary:
Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.
Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 95
Summary:
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1847
Source of text:
DAR 100: 75–6
Summary:
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[27 June 1847]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 385)
Summary:
Must decline invitation for dinner; he is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W. Herschel Griesbach
Date:
[22 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.140a
Summary:
Sends £5 note. This is all he can spare. Has no recollection of ever meeting him and their relationship is very remote. Wishes a speedy improvement in his prospects.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.458
Summary:
The Professor of Botany at the Royal Dublin Society has died. Would like to propose their friend W. H. Harvey for the position. Would JH write a letter of commendation to the Society?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[1 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.317
Summary:
Comments on JL's improvements to planetary theory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hans Christian Oersted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.170
Summary:
Sends two of his papers. R. I. Murchison has now received the Order of Dannebrogg. If JH thinks he can utilize the order once conferred on him he should write to the King. P.S. King is now dead, but could pass the letter to the appropriate body.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.302
Summary:
A resolution passed by members of the B.A.A.S. meeting at Oxford urges the publication of William Herschel's papers in one volume.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Peacock
Date:
[30 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.303 & 22.322
Summary:
Replying to GP's 1847-6-28, is worried about the amount of time that will be required of JH in preparing a suitable biography; does not want it to interfere with other work on hand.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Collins
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0130; Reel 1054
Summary:
Refuses permission for JH's portrait to appear in Collins's Portraits & Memoirs of Eminent Conservatives (1846). JH has never identified publicly with any political party.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[8 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0286; Reel 1054
Summary:
JH's opinions regarding agreement between R.S.L. and Hudson Bay Company for survey of northern Canada. Transportation expenses should be paid by Company, officer's salary by Ordnance department, but R.S.L. may choose to bear costs in order to avoid dishonoring science. Reviews magnetic data obtained by survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Josiah Forshall?]
Date:
[9 June 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.62 (draft: RS:HS B27.64 same topic but significantly different)
Summary:
Reports on the changes to be made to the British Museum heating system to improve heating and ventilation in the manuscripts department.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Benjamin Morgan Cowie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847-6 or earlier]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0152.1; Reel 1087
Summary:
[Form letter] Invitation to attend annual awards ceremony at College for Civil Engineers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Richard Weld
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0562.1; Reel 1093
Summary:
Sends paper for JH to read. Should it be published in R.S.P.T.?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
- Airy, George Biddell3
- Babbage, Charles2
- Baillie, Joanna3
- Beckwith, Thomas P.2
- Birt, William Radcliffe1
- Collins, Thomas1
- Compton, Spencer J. A.1
- Cowie, Benjamin Morgan1
- Darwin, C. R.9
- De Morgan, Augustus2
- Forbes, James David1
- Griesbach, W. Herschel1
- Hayday, James1
- Herschel, John56
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Hooker, W. J.2
- Lubbock, John William2
- Lyell, Charles1
- Oersted, Hans Christian1
- Peacock, George2
- Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland), Algernon8
- Ross, J. C.1
- Rundell, W. W.3
- Ryan, Edward1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian1
- Sheepshanks, Richard2
- Steinheil, C. A. von2
- Stratford, William Samuel5
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III1
- Weld, Charles Richard1
- Williams, William Smith1
- Woolcott, George1
- [Birt, William Radcliffe]1
- [Forshall?, Josiah]1
- [R.S.L. Council]1
- [Sheepshanks, Richard]1
- FEWER