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Herschel10613

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[2 June 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.492 & 20.254
Summary:

Outlining his scheme for election of candidates to a post [appears to be an astronomer for an observatory].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE587

From:
Julius Plucker
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
11 Jan 1832
Source of text:
MSP 4 / 274, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE364

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
19 Sep 1834
Source of text:
MSH 6 / 347, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-408

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 1
Summary:

Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
25 June 1843
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.31)
Summary:

Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.

[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-771

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
29 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.38)
Summary:

Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].

Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].

Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001622

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
15 July 1845
Source of text:
MM/21/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure)
Summary:

Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10614

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.493
Summary:

When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[23 Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 138
Summary:

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.

Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.

Lists sections of South America of special interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 139
Summary:

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Discusses inclination of lava stream.

Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10615

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.494
Summary:

Queries regarding the statement by William Herschel on the time taken for the light from the stars to reach the earth. Have there been any new developments in this theory?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
18 [Mar 1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

CD has been a referee for LH’s Nile geology paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. Praises the work but offers criticism not in his report: Joseph Russegger’s statement about the baked Upper Sandstone deposit cannot be believed; LH’s paper is too long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
27 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

Regrets that he has not published his information on superficial beds except in abbreviated form, on p. 143 of Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[1856–7]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10616

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.495
Summary:

Has had a volume of essays of JH's and wonders if the first one [address to the subscribers of Windsor Public Library] has been published separately; if not, he would like to issue it in a cheap form.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
23 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 140
Summary:

Much pleased that LH approves of Origin.

"Ilkley [Wells] did me extraordinary good."

Wants to know C. J. F. Bunbury’s opinion of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3062

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
14 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
20 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Summary:

Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
13 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.2216:167)
Summary:

Sends condolences on death of LH’s wife. Recalls many pleasant hours in Bedford Place. He and Emma thank LH for sending the memorial paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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