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DCP-LETT-1162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
7 Mar [1848]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

JP’s reference was clear, but seems to be different from the case cited by W. Hopkins about erratic conglomerate boulders. Asks for more details on the latter. CD does not think much of Hopkins’ paper ["Elevation and denudation of the district of the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1848): 70–98].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6278

From:
de Belime
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.39
Summary:

Sending a Latin poem he has written on the death of Caroline Herschel. Comments on the troubled state [Revolution of 1848] of Paris at the time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001098

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
9 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/135, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Tyndall0346

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Hirst
Date:
9th Mar. 1848
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/7; MS JT/1/T/514, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3454

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.135
Summary:

Asks when JH can receive CL and Edward Sabine at Collingwood, that they may explain to JH why R.S.L. Council desires JH to serve as president.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3654

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
10 March [1848]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.136
Summary:

Discusses ES's visit with Charles Lyell to try inducing JH to accept nomination for R.S.L. presidency. In light of JH's earlier letter, ES did not propose JH as nominee, but others regard JH's nomination as exceedingly important.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001099

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
10 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/136, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel1291

From:
Josiah Forshall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.65
Summary:

The [British Museum] board accepts, with regret, JH's resignation as a Trustee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12954

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[10 March 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0366; Reel 1054
Summary:

Asked [Charles Lyell] to communicate JH's response to ES.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12831

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[10 March 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0235; Reel 1054
Summary:

'Confidential' Insists that CL honor JH's decision regarding R.S.L. office and drop subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12832

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[10 March 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0236; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 23.17)
Summary:

Begs CL and Edward Sabine to cancel their plan to interview JH for office [Presidency] in R.S.L. To continue will cause JH 'inexpressible pain.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[12? Mar 1848]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Thanks JP for his note and reference. CD’s paper will not deal with the general question of erratics but only their transportal from a lower to a higher level ["The transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. His notion is that the boulders were transported by coast-ice, not drifting icebergs, and that during the period of transportal the land was subsiding. Can JP tell him whether the raised conglomerate boulders he observed were rounded or angular?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2345

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.217
Summary:

Sorry JH will not undertake R.S.L. presidency. Discusses meteorology and magnetism. [J. D.?] Robinson's instrument works well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6816

From:
Henry T. De La Beche
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.132
Summary:

Sending him the material on mineralogy for the new manual. Comments on the difficulty of writing this sort of work and gives an outline of how he has written it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6817

From:
Henry T. De La Beche
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.133
Summary:

May alter his own article on mineralogy as he pleases.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2062

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
13 March 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

KEMP81

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
14 Mar 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/61)
Summary:

Thanks for the re-measurements. RC has found more interesting geology in Northumberland and County Durham.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

SOMERVILLE622

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
14 Mar 1848
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 95, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel9258

From:
George Eden
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.15
Summary:

Is prepared to enlarge the Admiralty Manual provided the extra material is of good quality and not too bulky. Will contact John Murray [Jr.] about printing and publishing rights. Will give W. R. Birt every facility for a separate publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2030

From:
James Cowles Prichard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.61
Summary:

Submits a paper [on ethnology] for JH's Admiralty Manual. Welcomes information from JH on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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