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Herschel6971

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.240
Summary:

Encloses article for JH to work on. Can he inform him of Encke's Christian names?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9255

From:
George Eden
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.12
Summary:

Is sorry to hear that they are not to have the services of Adam Sedgwick. Would be pleased if JH would write to C. R. Darwin. Thinks that 200 pages will be quite long enough for the Admiralty Manual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1574

From:
Sophie Beckedorff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31?] January 1848
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0078
Summary:

Caroline Herschel's death and funeral. Awaiting JH's instructions for disposition of property and headstone inscription. Erroneous biographies appearing in French and German papers. Encloses copy of response from Mr. Hahn, bookseller, to manuscript by Margaret Louisa Herschel. [P.S., 3 Feb. 1848] Accidentally burned JH's Latin inscription for Caroline Herschel. Does JH have copy?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9681

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.31
Summary:

The paragraph he sent JH was not intended for his address. Augustus De Morgan must be under some misapprehension. Has asked De Morgan to send JH the revised form.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11245

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.136
Summary:

Has received a letter from W. C. Bond of the Cambridge Observatory (U.S.A.), who speaks of the satellite of Neptune. Bond also sends details of the stars around Orion. Relates his own work on the specula of telescopes. Intends to submit a paper on this to the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
31 Jan [1848]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller, Tokyo) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for his article ["Microscopical objects found in mud of Levant", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848):1–128]. Comments on it; offers to send Ascension Island specimens. Urges WCW to re-examine coal-beds for Infusoria to determine whether intervening beds were deposited by sea-, brackish, or fresh water.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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