From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 66
Summary:
Accepts CD’s invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.256 (C: RGO 6.695.215)
Summary:
Has received notice from the Foreign Office that the Russian Government has sanctioned the establishment of a magnetic and meteorological observatory at Pekin.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 29
Summary:
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[17 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.22
Summary:
Has now sent the last of the nebula observations to be reduced for printing [see GA's 1862-4-16].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[17 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.369
Summary:
Thanks for a report by RF; comments on barometric readings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[17 April 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207104 (C: RS:HS 23.368)
Summary:
Sends, along with comments, JH's translation of part of Book II of Homer's Iliad. Is avoiding consulting other translations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project