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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
[6 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.20)
Summary:

Has been unwell.

Thanks TCE for his descriptions [of specimens for Birds]. Has already expended a high proportion of Government grant on birds, but if TCE thinks engravings are needed, he shall have them. He may keep the bones.

CD has become a father.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.173
Summary:

Will be expecting him on Thursday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.369
Summary:

Thanks for sending him the requiem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Basil Hall
Date:
[7 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.273
Summary:

Has not heard of any results of JH's letter to D. F. J. Arago, but Georges Aimé has been appointed to direct an observatory in Algiers. Great interest at the Institute when JH's letter was read. Glad he did not waste a second letter to the Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Edmond Grant
Date:
7 January 1840
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.191
Summary:

Francis Beaufort has shown him his copy of the 'Requiem' and would be pleased if JH would send him a copy. Mr. Harvey and himself have been observing nebulae on the clear nights. Is having a Munich object glass mounted. Will be in town towards the end of the month.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.79
Summary:

Sends the corrections of the Meteorological Instructions to JH. Presents a new plan for recording data.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.370 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Sending him the last Comptes rendus that can go by post. Hopes he can arrange some other method. Is always pleased to receive his publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Hayler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1840]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 2/1.2; Reel 5
Summary:

Long-time servant at Collingwood, first of Jesse Gregson, then to G. N. Collingwood. Able to care for poultry, dairy, or gardens. Received 'orders to leave Elpick' in March but begs permission to remain as JH's servant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Johann Conrad Fischer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 January 1840
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[10 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.295
Summary:

Regarding communications from Paddington. Gives verses written in honor of the 40-foot telescope. Has some strange results in photographic work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Vernon Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1840]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.18
Summary:

Writing on behalf of Lord John Russell, asks JH to notify the persons JH has selected to teach at the Cape of Good Hope to visit RS at the Colonial Office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
11 January 1840
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH sends this letter accompanying some specimens [not present] for his father, William Jackson Hooker. He discusses his monograph of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] plants, it is a revision of WJH's papers in the BOTANICAL JOURNAL & CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE[?] & needs the addition of Malvaceous plants from ICONES PLANTARUM & Brown's genus Stenopetalum from De Candolle. It is to be printed in the ANNALS & Mr Taylor will send copies for Sir John Franklin, Captain [James Clark] Ross etc. JDH expects the expedition to leave VDL for the ice in Oct 1840. Discusses the need to revise his description for the ICONES PLANTARUM. JDH's collection may be extensive enough to warrant adding new VDL genera to future volumes of the FLORA BOREALI AMERICANA. JDH is now considered the naturalist to the expedition though his nominal rank is as a medical officer [assistant surgeon].

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
11 January 1840
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/6
Summary:

The Penny Post, including a poem on the subject; John's membership of the Literary Society; Chartist trials at Monmouth; description of lodgings and Mr and Mrs Wright.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[12 January 1840]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:184
Summary:

Notice on the 'final laying up' of the Old Telescope, with a 'Requiem of the Forty-Foot Reflector,' sung by JH's family on New Year's Eve.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
12 January 1840
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/7
Summary:

Hertford Literary Society; Penny Post; countryside around Kington; Chartist trials; Crutwell and other acquaintances in Hertford.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.33
Summary:

Sending a list of the principal instruments possessed by Lt. Col. George Everest. Also the last report made by Everest of his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[13 January 1840]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20742
Summary:

On 1 Jan. 1840, JH's family laid William Herschel's 40-foot reflector to rest by singing a song (enclosed). Mentions Hammerfest instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
14 January 1840
Source of text:
RI MS G F2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project