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DCP-LETT-1239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:

Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.

CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.

CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Apr [1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73a)
Summary:

Continues to improve, but water-cure has produced "indolence and stagnation of mind".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13801

From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 146
Summary:

On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000479

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
14 April 1849
Source of text:
MM/9/59, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10777

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.130 & 10.136
Summary:

Is thinking of withdrawing his son from Christ's Hospital owing to his frequent epileptic fits. Should he inform the Prince Consort? Outlines his recent photographic work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10778

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
24 April [1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.131 & 10.136
Summary:

Since writing to JH he has taken medical advice and decided to leave his son at Christ's Hospital for the time being. Gave a lecture at the Royal Institution on Friday evening.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11174

From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.64
Summary:

Looks forward to the new edition of JH's Treatise Astr. Comments on the atmosphere and gases on the surface of the moon. What does JH think of these comments?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11301

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.205
Summary:

Read part of JH's letter to the Institute and Yvon Villarceau also presented his own method. Will see the letter printed in the Comptes rendus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11409

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.320
Summary:

Has just published a small work to remove popular superstitions. Presents a copy to JH as a mark of respect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13548

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1849]
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0025.1; Reel 14
Summary:

Describes HJ's formal petition against Stuart Watley's bill for reform of marriage laws.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13549

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3] April [1849
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0025.2; Reel 14
Summary:

Thanks for JH's corrections to HJ's formal petition [against marriage reform bill].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13606

From:
[A. J. F.] Yvon Villarceau
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.418
Summary:

Asks for JH's comments on YV's specific double star observations. YV presents the mathematical method he uses to calculate double star orbits, which he had presented to the Paris Académie in 1847, but it was not published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13607

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[A. J. F.] Yvon Villarceau
Date:
[19 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.418a
Summary:

Has passed YV's memoirs on the calculation of orbits on to G. B. Airy for publication; copies will be sent [see YV's 1849-4-1]. Notes that YV's methods are similar to those of U. J. J. Leverrier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14822

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1849]
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Identifies the positive features of the aneroid barometer as in use by the Navy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel343

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.395
Summary:

Glad to hear that Margaret Louisa [JH's daughter] is coming to visit GA's family; could JH send along the key to the R.A.S. strong box?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5] April 1849
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.396
Summary:

Responds to GA's 1849-4-4, and sends the key.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel345

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.176
Summary:

Is making a case for JH's priority claims with regard to the means of determining double star orbits, in conflict with Yvon Villarceau.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel346

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.178
Summary:

A note about forwarding papers related to the double star question [see JH's 1849-4-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel347

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.181
Summary:

Extended comments about some of GA's statements in GA's abstract of Yvon Villarceau's papers on double stars [see GA's 1849-4-11].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel44

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.371.106
Summary:

Some responses to the question of copyright and of revision of articles prepared for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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