Search: letter in document-type 
1830-1839::1838::06 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 120 of 56 items

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[c. June 1838]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Responds to report of the referee [on his paper "The formation of mould"]. Strikes out a paragraph and wants to add a note. Asks WL’s advice about a sentence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus Frederick
Date:
1838-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.420 & 21.246
Summary:

Giving his reasons for not wanting to become a Baronet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus Frederick
Date:
1838-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.421 & 20.247
Summary:

Thanking him for his offer of a baronetcy. Matters relating to this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Joseph Goodall
Date:
[1838-6 to 1840-5]
Source of text:
Gerald M. Friedman
Summary:

Thanks for loan of letters of Captain [Richard] Copeland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Murdoch
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 June 1838
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I126
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.354
Summary:

Thursday will suit Charles Wood and FB is writing to G. B. Airy to meet JH in (FB's) room.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.70
Summary:

Welcomes JH back from Cape; includes results of FB's work on geodesical measurements in East Prussia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.433
Summary:

Welcome home to the Herschels.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bunbury
Date:
[6 June 1838]
Source of text:
WT B.4
Summary:

Informs HB that a cask of bulbs is waiting for him at the Customs House. From JH's experience of his own bulbs, urges HB to get them quickly as they will deteriorate rapidly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
7 June 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/45, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.3
Summary:

A notice of meeting of the Standards Commission.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Landeman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0325; Reel 1087
Summary:

Asks JH for assistance in obtaining financial aid and new instruments from English government in support of meteorological observatory in British Guiana, where JL's son is stationed. Can JH suggest employment opportunities as astronomer in U.K. for JL's son?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.393
Summary:

Regarding tickets for Lady Herschel's gallery. There has been some fracas with Charles Babbage over the distribution of these tickets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.1; Reel 1084 (ACCS: RGO 6.340.272)
Summary:

Asks JH to compile list of questions to be sent to 'commercial bodies' regarding prospective changes in standards of weights and measures. To be presented at June 1838 meeting of Commission of Standards [see JH's 1838-5-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.263
Summary:

Would have liked to have welcomed JH on his return from the Cape, but academic duties prevented it. Royal Irish Academy progresses under W. R. Hamilton's presidency. His late father established a magnetic observatory at Dublin and HL is in charge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Elliot Drinkwater-Bethune
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0080; Reel 1087
Summary:

Lists 11 British cities with active Chambers of Commerce and two societies that might come 'within the Spirit of our resolution.' Will make further inquiries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
9 June 1838
Source of text:
SLNSW ML MS A292, f.435
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[11 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.248
Summary:

Some personal and some general astronomical news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[11 June 1838]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library
Summary:

Thanks JB for letter to JH at the Cape. Requests JB to provide introductions for Mr. Stanford, who is making statistical inquiries in France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.275
Summary:

About Cape bulbs and seeds, the new travel by railway from Slough to London, and concern about interest in animal magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project