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From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.76
Summary:

Offers to make drawings of the moon's surface for illustrating JH's paper on that subject to be presented to the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1845-8
Source of text:
JHS 4.23
Summary:

Writes mostly about arrangements for meeting MH's train from London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-8?-1845
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 August 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.520
Summary:

No news yet about the request to Robert Peel for money for magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 281
Summary:

CD’s criticism of his book [Travels in North America (1845)].

Compares invertebrate animals of Tasmania and England.

Mentions views of C. J. F. Bunbury on climate of the Carboniferous period.

Robert Brown says Australian flora has the widest range.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4 August 1845
Source of text:
MM/9/54, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Everett
Date:
4 August 1845
Source of text:
MHS E. Everett papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John William Parker
Date:
4 August 1845
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1845]
Source of text:
JHS 6.1
Summary:

Mostly about family activity while MH is away; comments on the review by Adam Sedgwick of [Robert Chambers's] Vestiges of a Natural History of Creation in the Edinburgh Review in which the author receives 'a reasonable currycombing.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Ayern
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.22 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Received JH's payment for coal. Estimates cost increases for next year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.175
Summary:

[John] Stevelly wants ES to write about him. ES sends Stevelly's letter directly to JH instead. Says he is a conscientious and painstaking preceptor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Taylor, [F.R.S.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.15
Summary:

Agrees with JH that the price of the B.A.A.S. catalogue of stars should be kept moderate to achieve the widest useful distribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.9; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH expresses pleasure in receiving and reading extracts from CH's biography. Expects to begin printing his Cape Results by Christmas. In finalizing his Cape Results, JH has found that several Southern double stars moved in the five-year span of his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.11
Summary:

Informing him of the death of her sister.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 August 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1845]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.232(2)
Summary:

Encloses a copy of JH's 'letter of conditions.' Has been extremely busy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Hawkins
Date:
7 August 1845
Source of text:
BM DWAA MS Correspondence 1826-1860, volume 5, 1721
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Gardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.92
Summary:

At a recent meeting of the Council of the College of Chemistry it was resolved that JH should be invited to become a Vice-President. Hopes he will agree to this request.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomson
Date:
8 August 1845
Source of text:
ULC add MS 7342, F30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[11 August 1845]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 111 (C: RS:HS 22.246)
Summary:

Thanks JF for second edition of work on the Alps. Praises first edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project