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Herschel2750

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.30
Summary:

Speaks of his meeting with the acting general of artillery and the master general secretary, who approved of employing men and engineers in the fixed observation work in St. Helena and Canada. Encloses the remainder of the translation of C. F. Gauss's first volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2751

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.31
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd has asked for magnetometers, assuming that the 'Authority' approves of the instruments. Remarks that Lloyd's observatory will be ready for visitors in late June and that Lloyd plans to go to the continent in July. States nothing more can be done regarding the selection of employees until the Authority acts. Believes an application will have to be made to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl; Henry Colburn
Date:
[21 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18)
Summary:

Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1341

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.289
Summary:

Comments on Louis Daguerre's use of muriatic ether, and encloses a photograph of hand writing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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