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DCP-LETT-940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121b
Summary:

Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7373

From:
Charles Richard Weld
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.4 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

Committee of Physics will meet 6 Nov.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2314

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.185
Summary:

Thinks Dean of Ely [George Peacock] should be appointed treasurer of R.S.L. Discusses George Rennie and Robert Brown as other possible candidates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2315

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.186
Summary:

Communication from [Henry] Goulburn is official. Government will continue observatories and acquaint other governments with them. Admiralty will furnish meteorological instruments for coast stations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7382

From:
J[oseph?] Hartnell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1845-11]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.31 verso; Reel 7
Summary:

[Form letter] Requests parishioners to attend meeting on 1 Dec. to determine future of dispensary, which affords medical relief to 89 families in parish.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1779

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
1 November 1845
Source of text:
RI MS G F16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9149

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845-11?]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20766
Summary:

Thanks WW for his book [Of a Liberal Education, 1845]. Agrees with WW on the educational value of the calculus and on the importance of Isaac Newton's Principia. Is teaching mechanics to his son William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC581

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
-[11]-[1845]
Source of text:
JDH/2/8 f.48-49, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, about developments in his candidature for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh University, usually held by one person unifying the posts of College Professor, Regius Professor, & Curator of the Botanic Garden. He reports that [John Hutton] Balfour had previously refused to take the post of Chair without the garden curatorship leaving only JDH & Leller[?] as candidates. JDH is Crown nominated & has the support of the University Provost but needs approval from the Town Council. The Natural History Chair also needs dual approval, the Provost plans to petition Sir James Graham [Home Secretary] to relinquish all Government, or 'Crown', control over 1 chair in return for total control of the other, plus his guaranteed support for JDH's candidature. JDH does not think this will be well received as the government has put a lot of money into the college & botanic garden. JDH adds that Balfour has since revoked his conditional refusal of the post of Chair of Botany without the garden curatorship, & the Town Council is inclined to appoint him if only to demonstrate their influence to government. They also want someone with lecturing, not just botanical, credentials. JDH is dismissive of their opposition, if he got the posts of Regius Professor & Garden Curator the faculty would have to accept him. Only the College Professorship is in the gift of the Town Council, it would be the post devalued & JDH would be happy to free of it & the Council's oversight in exchange for the reduced salary. He concludes that it has all become a matter of politics. One Councillor suggested that JDH take Balfour's current position at Glasgow claiming it was of equal value, JDH disabused him. JDH mentions some people he has seen, or expects to soon, in Edinburgh: Nicoll, the Gibson Craigs, Deucher[?], Muir, Henderson & Smith, the Sands & Lord Falnor[?]. He also has invitations to Kilmun, Riccarton, the Smiths at Coulston, E. Hendersons & the Gardens.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel1769

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0631.10
Summary:

Is writing about further arrangements about the telescope to go to the Cape Observatory; JH is negotiating with George Merz for it [see GA's 1845-10-28].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE287

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Nov 1845
Source of text:
HS 16.352, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE286

From:
John Herschel
To:
Spencer J A Compton
Date:
2 Nov 1845
Source of text:
RS MC.4.92, Epsilon
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10713

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[2 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.253
Summary:

Sends thanks and very high praise for AH's first volume of Kosmos. Also comments on a number of other astronomical matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2661

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[2 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.352 (C: RS:HS 22.254)
Summary:

Discusses MS's light experiments. JH will present the results to Royal Society. Describes apparatus that may help her. Recently attended a meeting concerning continental magnetics and meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3221

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[2 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS MC.4.92
Summary:

Hopes extracts from Mary Somerville's letters on her experiments with 'Coloration of Light,' specifically, 'action of rays on vegetable juices,' can be read to R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3409

From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.142
Summary:

Expresses satisfaction with results of continued magnetic and meteorological observations in various locations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7381

From:
Field, Wardell, etc.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.27; Reel 7
Summary:

Encloses invoice for stout ordered by Mr. Stewart and sent to Mrs. Waterhouse of Old Brompton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 or 12] Nov 1845
Source of text:
DAR 114: 45
Summary:

Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].

Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".

Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1780

From:
Lord Prudhoe
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1779a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie
Date:
5 November 1845
Source of text:
BL RP 5828 (iii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5623

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.112
Summary:

Regarding recent barometric readings and atmospheric waves.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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