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Herschel7660

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.14; Reel 10
Summary:

Returned JH's 'original sheets of nebulae.' Kept sheets of calculations. Will write about money accounts later. Lord Palmerston's communication about Thomas Maclear's pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3438

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Returns "The Week" [unidentified].

Agrees with THH’s published letter that writer is a man of excellent spirit, but doubts he is a good logician.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3439

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014)
Summary:

Comments on CK’s letter [3426].

Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.

On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel722

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.116
Summary:

Comments on AH's chemical results and on an apparently anomalous sample of common salt being sent by JH; sends AH £5 for the month.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6718

From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.35
Summary:

Many years ago he read a paper to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on the merits of JH's telescope compared with that of William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse); this paper has never been printed. Gives details of his own optical work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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