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DCP-LETT-2734

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[24 Mar – 3 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.204)
Summary:

Discusses letter of recommendation for Edward Blyth.

Sedgwick’s review of the Origin in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860].

Mentions breaks between geological formations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2735

From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 91: 82
Summary:

W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.

Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2736

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
30 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 284
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s [Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie (1860)].

Has failed to find French publisher for Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3093

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 160)
Summary:

Invites THH to join Hooker at Down on 5 April.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 [Mar 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.203)
Summary:

Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5984F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood
Date:
5 Mar [1860–9]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10216

From:
Thomas Goodchild
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.102
Summary:

Sending a descriptive pamphlet of an optical invention of his own for simple experiments with color.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11081

From:
Joseph Jopling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.417
Summary:

Outlining his geometrical laws for the Great Pyramid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11110

From:
Cuthbert W. Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[186?]-3-19
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.447
Summary:

Pointing out an error by JH in assigning the authorship of a weather table to Sir William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12267

From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.124
Summary:

The writer of the enclosed production has given lectures at SN's establishment. Introduces him to JH. Hopes to give a lecture at Hawkhurst. Would be pleased for any of the Herschel family to view the orchid house, now in full bloom.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12268

From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.125
Summary:

Miss Newington will have pleasure in seeing Lady Herschel and Miss Power on Monday or Tuesday next. Will send over a copy of the Orchid House tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1972

From:
Norman Pogson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.1
Summary:

Dissatisfied with [F. W. A.] Angelander's nomenclature of variable stars; seeks JH's approval of NP's nomenclature for the new 'Hartwell Atlas of Variable Stars.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1973

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norman Pogson
Date:
[19 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.2 (C: RS:HS 23.299)
Summary:

Agrees with NP's proposed method of designating variable stars. Offers some suggestions from JH's own experience.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2395

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.300
Summary:

Against changing location of Royal Observatory [from Greenwich], but will defer to opinion of [G. B. Airy] Astronomer Royal. Airy is most competent to judge situation. Still ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2553

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.463
Summary:

Mentions a passage of Aristotle regarding comets. Proposes that Origen's theory of the Magi may be correct. Perhaps the Magi saw a comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3550

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[1 March 1860]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:1144 (C: TCD 1493:1145)
Summary:

Apologizes for not returning sheets of Elements of Quaternions sooner, but was ill. Again cautions WH that method might be too advanced for elementary readers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel415

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 March 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.195.251
Summary:

Offers some possible explanation for what the unnamed observer saw [see GA's 1860-3-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4300

From:
William Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Offers his services as a coachman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4488

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.313
Summary:

May include JH's position on Neptune discovery in a new edition of Cycle of Celestial Objects. Will review objects catalogued in the volume with refractor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4858

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.245 (C: RGO 6.195.250)
Summary:

Passes on information on stars received from a Bengal pilot.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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