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DCP-LETT-1016

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[1 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10614

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.493
Summary:

When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel164

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.676.459
Summary:

A committee meeting is being called [see JH's 1846-10-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.79.336
Summary:

Has obtained puzzling results when reducing JH's observations of the sixth satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6509

From:
Spencer J. A. Compton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.271
Summary:

Regrets his lateness in writing his request, but would JH write an obituary notice of F. W. Bessel? Does not expect it to be ready before the Anniversary meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4401

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.293
Summary:

Lunar model will be placed in Somerset House.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
3 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9155

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.206
Summary:

Informs JH about WW's forthcoming collection of hexameter verse translations. Laments that the discovery of the new planet [Neptune] did not occur at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1017F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[4 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010)
Summary:

Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9156

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4?] November [1846
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.R.18.141 (C: RS:HS 25.13.7)
Summary:

Gives WW permission to print JH's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of JH's own. JH well along in having his Cape Results in print.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
5 November [1846]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:

Has secured the permission JE requested to allow [Karl I.] Gerhardt to get transcripts of letters held by R.S.L. from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg. [Continued 1846-11-6] Mentions controversy over discovery of Neptune. Thanks JE for publications sent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 70
Summary:

Observations on barnacles.

Would like to meet JDH in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9157

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[6 November 1846]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.R.18.14.44(1&2) inc (C: RS:HS 22.286 & C: RS:HS 18.207 inc
Summary:

Gives corrections to the proof copy of JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1019

From:
John Lort Stokes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4446

From:
John Webb Woollgar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1846]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Sends communication from R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1928

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Martin
Date:
9 November 1846
Source of text:
Pendered (1923), 205-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grey
Date:
10 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

CD apologises for his note to J. L. Stokes [see 940], which somehow found its way into GG’s hands.

Praises GG’s work on Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1929

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
11 November 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Chairman of R.S.L. Committee of Physics
Date:
[11 November 1846]
Source of text:
RS Sa.651 (C: RS Sa.652, RS Sa.653; ACCS: RS:HS 25.7.3)
Summary:

Being unable to attend committee meeting to consider recommendations for Royal Medal, elaborates reasons for thinking Edward Sabine's memoirs on terrestrial magnetism worthy of award.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1022

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 71
Summary:

Will JDH be in London?

Cirripede observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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