From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 265
Summary:
Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[24 July 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 242b
Summary:
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 117
Summary:
Observations on insects visiting Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 46
Summary:
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 111
Summary:
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 112
Summary:
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 242
Summary:
Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray.
Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum paper read [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 264
Summary:
The Kew agent has looked into ships to Calcutta for Scott, who should come to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.160 & 24.50
Summary:
Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Haig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.161
Summary:
Thanks for his letter and amusing pamphlet on atoms. Comments on their use of certain terms. Does not think their views differ radically. Thinks heat is a form of movement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William E. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.176
Summary:
Thanks for his letter acknowledging Plutology and for the proof of the article in which JH refers to it. Authorship is difficult in these parts away from the proper books. Gives reasons why he chose the particular title and spelling.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[27 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.337 (C: RS:HS 24.55)
Summary:
His son informs him of the projected series of lectures at the Royal Institution on weather forecasting and meteorology. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.166
Summary:
Was grateful for a copy of the proof sheets of JH's forthcoming 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Comments on the Colonial book post. May discover a few hundred new nebulae but they are faint. Regrets to learn that JH's health is not good. Temperature has been very warm.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.170
Summary:
The [Samuel] Parlby case is a hard one. Has put JH's letter and enclosures into the hands of Reid [TM's son-in-law]. Will arrange for the case to be brought before the Governor. Arrangements are being made to erect a statue of Sir George Grey in the Botanic Garden in front of the new library and museum. Is proud of his own sailor son [John Maclear].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Harry W. Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.10
Summary:
Much obliged for JH applying to the Horse Guards on HM's behalf. Has now received his appointment to the 28th Regiment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Cranmer Penrose
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1864-7
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.334
Summary:
Is sending JH a paper on standardization of measurement, using decimalization but not the meter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[18 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393b (C: 24.48; C: RI 524-7)
Summary:
Thanks for and comments on papers on scientific history and molecular physics, particularly on a magnetic experiment and on dynamical efficiency of coal relative to motion theory of light and heat. Comments on nature of heat, 'vis viva.' Deplores laxity with which physicists use and confuse terms 'force,' 'motion,' and 'energy.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.51
Summary:
Sends WS William Herschel's chromatic observations of Beta Cygni. Completing 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Works on translating Book IX of Iliad; fears he will not complete translation of Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.354
Summary:
Asks again about Wilhelm Struve calculation in Outlines Astr.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isaac Todhunter
Date:
[18 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.54
Summary:
Cannot find the source of supposed Wilhelm Struve probability calculation; believes he has made a mistake. Regrets the error was not noticed in time to correct the seventh edition of Outlines Astr.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project