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Herschel1173

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845 to 1850?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.33
Summary:

Comments on WW's publication on education [Liberal Education, 1845 ?], especially as it applies to the teaching of mathematics. JH has been teaching JH's son William mechanics by WW's book on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7413

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1845-1-1 or later]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 7/1.2 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

JH began popular series on meteorology to 'suit your readers' over one year ago, but discovered excellent treatise by L. F. Kämtz and chose instead to translate that. 'Your letter' revived the idea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1248

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-1-1845
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1253

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1845
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

This is an unsigned letter from Hooker to Bentham.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1254

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1845
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1255

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1845?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A three page letter to Bentham from Joseph Hooker.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1256

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1845?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Short two page letter from Hooker to Bentham.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-813

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 31–2
Summary:

Says tuff collected by CD in Pampas and Chile contains organic remains. Wants to examine specimens further and hopes for Government support in doing so.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1668

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
2 January 1845
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1667

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
2 January 1845
Source of text:
GS MS M/F4/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1669

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
2 January 1845
Source of text:
SM MS 350/1, f.27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

WCP1265

From:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
To:
Wallace, John & Wallace, William
Date:
3? January 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/92/9
Summary:

First day back teaching school after summer. Praises Southern hospitality towards strangers. In answer to ARW’s query, describes farm animals: cows, sheep, pigs, poultry, oxen. Good gardens. Mocking birds and squirrels common. Indians have been driven west beyond Rocky Mountains — “We are situated where the Cherokee used to live.”

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6935

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.215
Summary:

The memoirs are cut enough already. Hopes his health is better.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2300

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.171
Summary:

Objection to G. B Airy's suggestion unexpected. Will see Dean of Ely [George Peacock] soon. Must review foreign letters to be sure none of consequence were omitted. Sends copy of the Toronto meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[7 Jan 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 25
Summary:

Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?

Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.

Has read Vestiges [of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".

Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.

Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9839

From:
James A. Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.173
Summary:

Thanks for his note. Will avail himself of the offer of hospitality and Mr. Forster and himself will call on Friday. Quotes example of electricity applied to agriculture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9840

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James A. Gordon
Date:
[9 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.174 & 22.219
Summary:

Will be happy to receive him but doubts the wisdom of bringing Mr. Forster as JH is not interested in joining any more societies. If Forster's experiments succeed he will be a benefactor to agriculture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday1670

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 January 1845
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3377

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[11 January 1845]
Source of text:
St. Andrews LB III, 602-3 (C: RS:HS 7.306)
Summary:

Believes JH expressed support for pension for surviving child of Thomas Henderson. Comments on this, stating his own view that she is already well provided for.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel824

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1845]
Source of text:
JHS 3.24
Summary:

It is pouring rain at Collingwood; JH writes a long but reasonably temperate review of the visit of two mesmerists; JH opposed to mesmerism because he sees it as fraudulent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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