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DCP-LETT-1084

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 277
Summary:

[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 89
Summary:

Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.

Has acquired a new microscope.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 91
Summary:

CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:

Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:

CD would like to call on JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
25 May [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5)
Summary:

Discusses accounts.

Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1090F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Allen
Date:
25 May 1847
Source of text:
The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07)
Summary:

Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 88
Summary:

Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 90
Summary:

Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.

Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:
5 May [1847]
Source of text:
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Summary:

Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000598

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Date:
18 May 1847
Source of text:
MM/11/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10262

From:
Dr. Groskopf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.147
Summary:

Is searching for a Robert Georg Twaddel; asks JH whether he knows anything of him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10627

From:
Luke Howard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.8
Summary:

Has directed the printers, Taylors, to send JH's booksellers the parts of the Barometrographia as issued, free of all costs. The science of meteorology attracts little attention at the moment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11170

From:
Anne Elise Knipping
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.60
Summary:

Thanks JH for birthday wishes for JH's aunt Caroline Herschel. Goes on to tell JH about Caroline's health, both physical and mental, and about the birthday celebration for Caroline.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11777

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.137
Summary:

Has just read W. R. Dawes's description of the observatory at Camden Lodge and the telescope by eorg Merz makes TM envious. Hopes JH will press claims for one for the Cape. Is at present engaged sinking the Sector for shelter. TM has suffered much from the effects of the heat. Dr. Gall has died, aged 98. What a drubbing G. B. Airy has given R. H. Inglis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14441

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 May [1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0529.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Cannot explain how Thomas Henderson arrived at special figures in N. L. Lacaille's star catalog. Will examine Lacaille's volumes tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14444

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847-5]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0531; Reel 1093
Summary:

Arranges concurrent meetings of Standards Committee and Visitation [to Greenwich observatory]. Possible explanation for notations in [Thomas Henderson's] 'tables at June 11.' Please review and edit 'Preface to Lalande.' Will write to [Elizabeth] Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14445

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0532; Reel 1093
Summary:

Congratulates JH on finding solution [to Thomas Henderson's notations]. Sends extract of 11 Mar. 1841 letter from Henderson, stating that Henderson used computations in Francis Baily's edition of N. L. Lacaille's catalog. RS's notes on observation and reductions of J. J. L. Lalande. Sent skeleton of RS's 'Preface' to W. S. Stratford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14446

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0533; Reel 1093
Summary:

Believes that RS's suggested correction, 'when translated into its equivalent value in terms of the inclination,' will provide sought-for values.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14447

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0534; Reel 1093
Summary:

Dispute with W. S. Stratford over proof sheets. Efforts to appease [T. R.] Robinson. RS's progress on works of N. L. Lacaille and J. J. L. Lalande.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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