From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 280
Summary:
Hybrid geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 25
Summary:
CD has been stomachy and sick, but not very uncomfortable.
Working on proofs [of South America] and cannot keep printer supplied with manuscript.
His thoughts of her, and news of the children who are at Down with him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 24
Summary:
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June – July 1846]
Source of text:
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59
Summary:
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1846
Source of text:
DAR 181: 143
Summary:
Variation in Mollusca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June [1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3)
Summary:
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Francis Stephens
To:
Robert Peel, 2d baronet
Date:
8 June 1846
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 40593: 187–91 Papers of Sir Robert Peel)
Summary:
Petitions for a Civil Pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
21 [June 1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204)
Summary:
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
23 June [1846]
Source of text:
Missouri Botanical Garden Library
Summary:
Does not remember where specimens came from. CD picked fossils most likely to contain Infusoria. Discusses composition of Tertiary strata of South America from which they came. Questions WCW’s statement that they contained siliceous matter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John E. Gray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.122
Summary:
Saw a curious effect of some drawings on colored paper at Oxford. Thought JH may be interested.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.331
Summary:
Obtained first rate measures of the double star on 31 May, but since then the atmosphere has been hazy and so unable to send any further measures. Thinks it worthwhile to observe all the stars in Cassiopeia and Ophiuchus.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.123
Summary:
Is giving a series of lectures at the Collegiate Institution. Has made some interesting discoveries recently and has deposited a paper with Faraday for communication to the R.S.L. Comes to the conclusion that chemical action can be suspended by magnetic force. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.124
Summary:
Has often thought of the inactive condition of iron and has made some notes before he received JH's comments. Has overcome all JH's objections to the intrinsic difference in the two poles. Comments on some of these experiments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Antoine C. G. Jobert
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.331
Summary:
Is applying for the French Mastership at the Belfast Academy and would be pleased to receive a testimonial from JH. Is also inviting subscribers for a new work to be published later.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James McCullagh
Date:
[27 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.10 & 22.274
Summary:
Has just received his remarkable paper on the dynamical theory of crystalline reflection and refraction. Comments on this. The subject has not lately occupied his attention. Would like clarification on some points.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.136
Summary:
Relating recent events in the latest Caffre war. [George] Childe has arrived and is engaged in preparing his rooms. Has had a letter from C. P. Smyth at Edinburgh. Price of commodities are rising rapidly at the Cape. Hopes that JH has taken expert medical advice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1 June 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0646; Reel 1089
Summary:
JH's opinions about disruptive effect of tremors on observatory if proposed railway tunnel is built under Greenwich Park. Proposes method for adjusting train schedule to reduce interference with observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0306.1; Reel 1087
Summary:
Wants to visit JH at Collingwood this weekend.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.196
Summary:
Proceedings of R.S.L. sent to recently regenerated Poudois[?] Society. [Joseph] Kay's observations will be sent to all observatories. Discusses election of fellows to R.S.L., the successor to S. J. A. Compton (Lord Northampton), proposal for single building to house all scientific societies.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Owen Stanley
To:
Isabella [?] Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.229
Summary:
Thanks and suggests date for dinner invitation. Reports on trip to Torres Straits and New Guinea. Updates on progress of OS's ship Rattlesnake and lack of midshipmen, and health of a Catherine (his sister?).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project