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DCP-LETT-4816

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 18–19
Summary:

Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.

Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.

Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.

W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4817

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 225
Summary:

Wonders whether CD might contribute, if possible, an occasional letter to the Reader to help in their effort to establish the journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4819

From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 160
Summary:

Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4820

From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 381
Summary:

Has heard from Hooker that CD is very ill and asking for suggestion of a doctor to consult. Recommends A. B. Garrod as specialist in gouty complaints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5339

From:
Clémence Auguste Royer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 80: B44
Summary:

Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001021

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
28 April 1865
Source of text:
MM/16/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001445

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
28 April 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/42, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE319

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
4 Apr 1865
Source of text:
HS 16.324, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE320

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Apr 1865
Source of text:
HS 16.372, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10269

From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.153
Summary:

Was grateful for his kind letter. Doubtless he has received further of his papers by now, including the one on the meteor of Oct. 1863. Sends a note on two lines of the Iliad. Has heard interesting news of Alexander Herschel's labors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10515

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.392
Summary:

Sending the elements of 79, 81 and 82; is not certain if N. R. Pogson has sent the orbit for No. 80. It is reckoned in the same way as in the last edition of JH's Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11435

From:
Edward Loyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.347
Summary:

The Archbishop of Canterbury [C. T. Longley] will be lunching with EL on Tuesday; will JH join them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11524

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.439
Summary:

Discussion on JH's geological specimens took place at the Geological Society on Wednesday. Gives some of the points raised at the meeting. Regarding the length of time that separates the extremes of eccentricity of the earth's orbit. Has raised the matter with G. B. Airy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11888

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.250
Summary:

Doubtless JH has heard from Miss Elizabeth Drummond JM's desire to meet JH. Would like to call at Collingwood on Saturday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11889

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.251
Summary:

Thanks for his kind reception on Saturday. Will communicate with Miss Elizabeth Drummond. Gives list of letters he borrowed from JH. Intends to try to meet William Yolland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12068

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.434
Summary:

Thanks for letter, but has not received W. E. Hickson's memoir. Regrets JH sees no use in a survey of the North Pole region. The scheme seems to be one that the President of the Geographical Society should encourage. The ribald buffoonery of the Times has done much good amongst the scientific world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1509

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[25 April 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.13 (C: RS:HS 24.105)
Summary:

Comments on a table of U. J. J. Leverrier on the eccentricities of the earth's orbit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1568

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[30 April 1865]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 46126.402
Summary:

Criticizes the manuscript of Mr. Hickson [?] about meteorology, the diameter of the sun, and conditions at the North Pole. JH recommends against publishing the work without considerable editing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2078

From:
G[eorge] C. Renouard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.328
Summary:

Tells several anecdotes about people William Herschel knew. Discusses William Herschel and his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2079

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
G[eorge] C. Renouard
Date:
[25 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.106
Summary:

Thanks GR for letter and anecdotes. Discusses Uranus and Jupiter and the long years the inhabitants of those planets, if there are any, must experience.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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