From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
1 July 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/46, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sophie Beckedorff
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[1838-7]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.8
Summary:
Invitation to Caroline, Sir John, and William Herschel to dine with her on Friday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.2; Reel 1084
Summary:
Announces 7 July meeting of Standard Commission at R.A.S. apartments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
2 July 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.487
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Plackett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.165
Summary:
Will send a representative to JH to discuss some matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Samuel March Phillipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[4 July] 1838
Source of text:
Paul Luther
Summary:
Is leaving England very shortly, so cannot meet to discuss the correspondent's Indian Survey. Provides advice on various metrological matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.226
Summary:
Sends congratulations on his safe return and also on the award of his baronetcy. Would like to submit JH's name as a candidate for the Literary Society; gives names of those already members.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Teodoro Monticelli
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.367
Summary:
Congratulates JH on return to England, his success at the Cape, and his ascension to the baronetcy. Praises JH for his contributions to many areas of science: 'The name of Herschel is ... the most spoken in this century.' Describes eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 1834 and his studies of the event. Makes general comments on the progress of science in Italy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Mayne Young
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 293
Summary:
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.178
Summary:
Note accompanying one of AS's publications on South African zoology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.276
Summary:
Thanks for more Cape bulbs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9] July 1838
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.1; Reel 1053
Summary:
JH and son William arrived safely. H. C. Schumacher is out of town but JH will visit Altona anyway. Son William's reactions to travel. JH tried unsuccessfully to understand Immanuel Kant and J. G. Fichte during voyage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.2; Reel 1053
Summary:
Fatiguing trip from Hamburg. Mr. Groskopff is 'preparing' aunt Caroline for arrival of JH and son William. Comments on German philosophers whom JH is reading on trip. Visit with Caroline Herschel. Miss Beckedorff is out of town. Architecture and language of Hanover. Groskopffs named their country home 'Slough' near Hameln.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.3; Reel 1053
Summary:
JH and son William made surprise visit to aunt Caroline Herschel. Mrs. Beckedorff is recovering from long illness. All Detmering family, who resided at Cumberland Lodge, are dead except Mrs. Detmering. Dr. Groskopff reports that Caroline, age 89, can still 'put her foot behind her back and scratch her ear in imitation of a dog.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.4; Reel 1053
Summary:
Hot temperatures killed all fish in rivers and moats of Hanover. JH's and son William's journey from Hanover through Ammensen to Göttingen. Describes outdated architecture, poor agricultural practices, and sad plight of peasant women. Attended church in Göttingen then visited C. F. Gauss at observatory. J. F. Blumenbach was too ill to receive JH and Gauss.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.378
Summary:
Received JH's note from Belvedere Hotel. Mentions various arrangements regarding JH's European journey, including JH's planned visit to Wilhelm Olbers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/5)
Summary:
Sends to CD, as Secretary of the Geological Society, his work on fossil shells ["Mémoire sur les coquilles fossiles", Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 10 (1838): 92–152].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project