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Herschel509

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[24 March 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.62
Summary:

Profusely thanks GA for his letter [see GA's 1854-3-23]. The family will keep JH at home. Talks about her interest in a nearby mound as a possible ancient site.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[24 March 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.64
Summary:

Sends some suggestions for additions to draft report of the Standards Commission [see GA's 1854-3-23]; thanks GA for the report on the eclipse of Thales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5838

From:
Henry Peter Brougham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.307
Summary:

Would like, if he can lay his hands on it, a paper of John Dalton's on the defect of vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel657

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.50
Summary:

Mrs. Newton, MH's servant, is being sued by a man who recommended her for the job, and JH is to be a witness in MH's stead.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel658

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.49
Summary:

Mostly about the court case [see JH's 1854-3-22]; it appears the plaintiff lost.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel659

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.51
Summary:

Mostly about a Mrs. [J. A.] Gordon, who has suffered a personal loss [death of her husband], and a young man who seems to be lost.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel660

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.52
Summary:

Is looking forward anxiously to coming to Collingwood on Friday; the Mint had a surprise visit from the Queen this day.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8099

From:
George G. Waldegrave
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.365
Summary:

GW's cousin J. A. Gordon approaching death, but calm. GW going to Naish.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8100

From:
George G. Waldegrave
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.366
Summary:

J. A. Gordon died quietly last night. Widow and Henrietta are thankful for JH's letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9028

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Peter Brougham
Date:
[3 March 1854]
Source of text:
Univ.Coll.London Brougham
Summary:

[Responding to HB's 1854-3-2], JH states that no manuscript accompanied the collection of colored silks sent to JH by John Dalton. Describes the collection and discusses 'idioptic vision.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel977

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 6.44b
Summary:

Comments on the health of MH and daughters Margaret Louisa and Francisca, and then JH complains of his own health problems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9823

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. James A. Gordon
Date:
[2 March 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23:145
Summary:

A letter of love and condolence to a woman and her husband, the latter being very near death.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC137

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 March 1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.4-5, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Gray for his critique of one of JDH's papers. JDH knows he is a difficult person when it comes to criticism. He mentions the issue of defining species & the significance of genetic resemblance & explains that he & Thomas Thomson have touched on the subject in the introduction to the FLORA INDICA. This long introduction will also include an account of the history of Indian botany, an essay on the climate & geographical account of the provinces. JDH is distributing & naming his Indian plants & laments the lack of standard nomenclature. He is currently working on Antidesmas with reference to Tulasne's paper, which is imperfect because of the shortcomings in the French collections he consulted. He mentions the difficulty in pinning down the characteristics of wild & cultivated Yew. JDH has taken a house on Kew Green for George Bentham, near William Jackson Hooker's herbarium in Hanover House. The herbarium now has a curator. Sometimes JDH thinks of abandoning Kew to write for the press in London, he finds it hard to support his growing family on a government salary whilst living in expensive Kew. JDH's father WJH is trying to secure JDH's continued employment for the Office of Woods & Forests but JDH is not optimistic. JDH stays at Kew to please his father & to have access to his herbarium & library. Nathaniel Wallich is very ill, Brown better at present. The Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] Government have purchased 6 copies of JDH's forthcoming FLORA TASMANIAE & the income is welcome as he made no money from his Antarctic expedition southern floras. JDH describes his recent work on fossil plants, especially Trigonocarpi from coal formations, they resemble Salisburia. JDH outlines his responsibilities regarding scientific societies, he is on the council of the Royal, Linnean & Geographical societies. He has managed to secure a review of the state of the Linnean Society botanical collections. Mentions Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt is dead at Leyden [Leiden].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall0895

From:
Christian Ludwig Gerling
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 2 Maerz 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/G/2, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0896

From:
Margaret Allen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 4th/54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/76, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0897

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 March 54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0898

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March. 12th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/194; MS JT/1/HTYP/325-325a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0899

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/210, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0900

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday 15th March 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/588; MS JT/1/HTYP/326, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0901

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/324, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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