From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:
Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John T. Towson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.359
Summary:
Thanks JH for suggestions on his methods and on publishing his work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
1 September 1846
Source of text:
RI MS G F19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1846-9
Source of text:
JHS 1.2
Summary:
Describes how time is spent at a conference, with a large section being directed to JH's daughter Isabella and written in Latin.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1846-9
Source of text:
JHS 3.13f
Summary:
JH has expressed strongly his concern about P[eter Stewart]'s health; JH hopes he did not speak out too strongly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.28
Summary:
Hopes that he will accept the accompanying pamphlet. Would like to make his acquaintance at some future date.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[2 September 1846]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/37 (C: RS:HS 12.416 & 22.281)
Summary:
On fitness of Michael Faraday, as a chemist and physicist, to chair B.A.A.S. section. Remarks on [H. C.] Oersted's identifying electricity and magnetism, and connection between Oersted's and Faraday's work. Further comments on Faraday's work, and on instances of rash observation ultimately proving correct.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[2 September 1846]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20769 (C: RS:HS 22.282)
Summary:
Pleased that WW is giving a paper at Southampton B.A.A.S. meeting. JH will attend. Has completed the printing of most of his Cape Results. Smoke-drifts are besetting Kent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 79
Summary:
Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.
Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[3 Sept? 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 118
Summary:
Is slaving at South America – ¾ finished.
Has discovered geologists never read each other’s works – "the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness … Geology is at present very oral".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 64
Summary:
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[3 September 1846]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/48
Summary:
To help RM, who must speak about [F. W.] Bessel, writes of Bessel's astronomical accomplishments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.29-30, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 September 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.227
Summary:
Thanks JH for spotting error in a publication about the Edinburgh Observatory. Discusses 'the planet that is expected to be found beyond Uranus.' Asks JH to help him send astronomical news to Thomas Maclear.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles William Pasley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.234
Summary:
Would like to see C. F. Schönbein's invention tried but has not the means to afford any assistance at the moment. Understands that Edward Sabine is to introduce Schönbein to the Master General of Ordnance, so he will be in good hands.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Mallet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0346; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sends results of RM's experiment on wave motion and earthquakes that RM will report at B.A.A.S. meeting in Southampton. Proposes new committee to implement RM's project.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 September 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.129
Summary:
Details of WL's observations of the seventh satellite of Saturn.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
[S?] Bold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0109.1; Reel 1087
Summary:
Invites JH to join SB and Mr. Bold at 'our stable' tomorrow evening. Hopes [J. B. A.] Dumas will arrive from Paris then.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project