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:
George Embury; George Tollet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 51
Summary:
Replies to [Questions about breeding].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.16)
Summary:
As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, CD formally expresses thanks for the American Philosophical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 6.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Date:
23 May 1839
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465)
Summary:
Writes, as Secretary of the Geological Society, to thank GAM for his presents, a slab of anthracite with plant impressions (from Philadelphia) and some fossils from Cornwall.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton
Date:
24 May 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233)
Summary:
Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.
Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
25 May [1839]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 May 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:
Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharp Macleay
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Introduces Syms Covington and recommends him for employment in Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 May 1839
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6)
Summary:
A letter of reference for Syms Covington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
31 May [1839]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1 pp.1–3)
Summary:
CD’s servant [Syms Covington] will work his passage to Australia.
Returns a curious stone, of which he hopes to publish an account. [See Volcanic islands, p. 38.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
30 May 1839
Source of text:
MM/9/49, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
JED Bethune
Date:
18 May 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[30 May 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0288; Reel 1054
Summary:
[Extract] Suggests change in proposed distribution [of Cape Results]. Richard Sheepshanks offered to subsidize portrait of JH, to be distributed with complimentary copies [of Cape Results].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Cam Hobhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0277; Reel 1087
Summary:
Asks JH to comment on draft of letter from H.E.I.C. court of directors to Marquis of Northampton in response to R.S.L.'s request for support of magnetic survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Elliot
Date:
[30 May 1839]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.24
Summary:
Thanks JE for the account of an experiment performed by JE using an iron ring and a magnet, the results of which JE finds illustrative of the phenomena of Saturn's rings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Raper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.302
Summary:
Writing at suggestion of [Francis] Beaufort. Needs information concerning [J. A.] Lloyd's observations concerning longitude of his observatory at Mauritius. Encloses prospectus of forthcoming work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Reid
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.324
Summary:
Bermuda Gazette will publish weekly report of weather. Will send reports to JH. Discusses work of others on storms.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Lord John Russell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.436
Summary:
Asks permission to add JH's name to the body of fellows of London University.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project