From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[20? Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 14
Summary:
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
13 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.
Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
14 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 401
Summary:
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
14 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
19 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 Aug? 1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
8 Aug 1847
Source of text:
HS 16.354, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.336
Summary:
Has discovered another member of the group of planets between Mars and Jupiter. Gives readings. May be the lost planet of Niccolo Cacciatore.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[14 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.337 & 22.325
Summary:
Obviously a ring of planets is being discovered. Congratulations on the discovery. Is the reading based on one night's observations only? Gives it a female name, possibly Iris.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.338
Summary:
Giving the details of his planetary discovery. Likes JH's name, but several more have been suggested. K. L. Hencke may have observed the new planet, but sees no reason why it should not have an English name.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.38
Summary:
Was pleased to see one of JH's letters with his mail that morning. Recalls his first meeting with JH. Has arranged for JH's name to be added to those who receive free copies of the Journal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.132
Summary:
Note to accompany details of WL's observations of the satellite of Neptune. [Details are found in WL's letter to H. C. Schumacher of 1847-8-6.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
H. C. Schumacher
Date:
[6 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.133
Summary:
Details of steps in his discovery of the satellite of Neptune. Gives details of the telescope he is using.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.134
Summary:
Grateful for JH's Cape observations. Has nothing new to report on the ring of Neptune. Has been troubled with dew on his prism, but has now succeeded in overcoming this difficulty.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.138
Summary:
Has had to leave his work with the Sector due to ill health. Found [George] Child overworked at the Observatory. Comments on some observations. Pleased to hear that JH's health has improved. Mr. Watermeyer has died and C. F. H. von Ludwig remarried. Gives latest news of Kaffir War. Comments on the quarrel between G. B. Airy and James South.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 August [1847?]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0517.7; Reel 1093
Summary:
Forwarded letters to William Whewell, as JH requested. Will show copies of them to G. B. Airy. Completing volume of J. C. Ross's second crossing. Willing to take charge of W. R. Birt's models.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1847]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.36
Summary:
Thanks JH for the receipt of a report of JH's work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project