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Herschel5004

From:
W[illiam] Ackland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.382
Summary:

He has seen C. J. G. Pastorff's drawings at the R.A.S. Still no trace of Mr. Newman's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6431

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.199
Summary:

Hopes that he found the report of the Porcupine Expedition worth his consideration. Sends a paper in which he examines the question of the Gulf Stream.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.363
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6674

From:
C[harles] Crowden
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.378
Summary:

Is a candidate for the headship of Reading Grammar School and would be grateful if JH would give him a testimonial.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6675

From:
C[harles] Crowden
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.379
Summary:

Is grateful for the testimonial JH has given him; it will be useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7783

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Williams
Date:
[21 April 1871]
Source of text:
RAS: MSS Add.29 [suppl.]
Summary:

Encloses copy of JH's letter to R.A.S. [see JH's 1864-6-29] that accompanied JH's submission of W. L. Newman's tables for determining radii of aplanatic lenses. Suspects that there was more than one volume of tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8143

From:
John Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.411
Summary:

In Nov. 1864, R.A.S. council instructed secretary Charles Pritchard to write to JH regarding tables by late [W. L.] Newman of York, but JW finds no evidence that Pritchard complied. Cannot find Newman's tables. Pritchard may have taken them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8618

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[19 April 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses WC's ideas on the causes of oceanic circulation. Notes that wind currents are easier to study than water currents. Glad WC got his specimens of Mediterranean water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
7 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.549-550, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC584

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
16 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.554-557, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC585

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
16 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.570-571, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to his wife Frances Hooker nee Henslow about his recent travels in Morocco. He describes the celebrations of the last day of Passover, which he spent with a Jewish family in Tetuan. He describes the journey by mule across flat plains from Tetuan to Ceuta & notes that the vegetation included Tamarix Africana, mulberry & Juniperus phoenicea. He describes the view approaching Ceuta, the agriculture around the Spanish town, the people he observed including Riffians, & the character of the fortified town. They stayed at the Fonda Italiana then went by Felucca to Algericas where they botanised in the hills & observed the differences in vegetation with the opposite coast. The Algericas vegetation included cork oak trees festooned with the fern Davalia canariensis, undergrowth of bracken, brambles, Genista, Ulex, Cistus & heaths as in Morocco. Algerica plants not found in Morocco were Rhododendron ponticum, Erica ciliaris & Sibthorpia europeana [europaea], several grasses & a Helianthemum. The flora was more advanced than in the Marrakech area, the habitat being drier, & the scenery prettier. They travelled on to Gibraltar, where presently stuck waiting for a boat to Tangiers, all their luggage having gone ahead to Tangier. Whilst waiting visited the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir William Williams of Kars, who had been informed of their travels by the Secretary of War, Mr Cardwell. The Governor's house is a new building on the site of an old convent with some fine trees: Norfolk Island Pine, Date Palm & Dracaena draco or 'Dragon's blood tree'. In the hills the vegetation included: Cerastium gibraltaricum, Linaria tristis, Phytolacca trees. They stayed at Fonda Españole near to the offices of the hospitable Mr Cowell. Under date Apr 18 he continues; they arrived late at Tangier & had to pay to have the gates opened. They met with [George] Maw who had travelled South & found the beautiful Iris Sir John Hay Drummond Hay made them aware of.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-71-04-01

From:
Eduard Regel
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 April 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M106, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-01a

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 April 1871
Source of text:
71/1100, VPRS 1187, unit 25, p. 304, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-04a

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 April 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-05

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 April 1871
Source of text:
No. 1167, unit 25, p. 353, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of a number of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-06b

From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 April 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 62/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9 pp. 167-169, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-06c

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 April 1871
Source of text:
No. 1183, unit 25, p. 366, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria.Memorandum dated on basis of annotation on M to J. McCulloch, 25 March 1871 (in this edition as 71-03-25c)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
8 April 1871
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no. 581, folder 209, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
19 April 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-1881, ff. 12-13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-04-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick McCoy
Date:
20 April 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M35, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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