From:
Richard Sutton Ford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1839
Source of text:
DAR 186: 44
Summary:
Answers to [Questions about breeding].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.118
Summary:
JH's letter of 9 Feb. has left him in high spirits. Is also pleased TM's paper was communicated to the R.S.L. Will make arrangements to collect parts of the meteorite and send the 4 lb. part to JH. G. B. Airy consents that Greenwich Mural Circle be sent to Cape Observatory. Will request more engineering personnel for Colonial Survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Perigal
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.364
Summary:
A note accompanying some machine-made mathematical curves.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean Baptiste Biot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.92
Summary:
Concerning polarization of light rays in crystals of quartz.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Nathaniel Bowditch [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.202
Summary:
Letter and parcel of papers has reached them safely for which they thank him. Third volume of Mécanique céleste will be sent later together with the fourth volume.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project