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Herschel13621

From:
T. P. Anderson and J. H. Shonbridge
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0006; Reel 1062
Summary:

H. J. Hollier asked General Reversionary and Investment Company (Anderson's clients) for another advance from Hollier Trust Fund. As trustee, JH is asked to sign and return enclosed receipt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2190

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9th Dec. / 64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/234; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2034, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4511

From:
Henry Cole
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 December 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 256
Summary:

Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.

Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.

CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001443

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
10 December 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/40, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel6630

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[10 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.76
Summary:

Comments about translating Homer and about other translations appearing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7808

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Thomas Walker
Date:
[10 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.16 (C: 24.77)
Summary:

Received Indian survey chart. JH's son John wrote of higher-order ellipsoidal triangles with sides based on geodesical triangles. JH objects that these violate principle of diagonal bracing. Proposes different triangles and names sites in India as apexes. Received G. B. Airy's paper on reduction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4363

From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 358
Summary:

Salmon and trout increase in size with river.

Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.

Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
11 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 7 (EH 88206059)
Summary:

Asks for comparison of otter-hounds’ feet with those of other dogs.

Changes in oysters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12156

From:
John Gibson Macvicar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.14
Summary:

Enclosing a paper for JH's perusal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001442

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
12 December [1864]
Source of text:
MM/19/39, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel9378

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph Engelmann
Date:
[12 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.131 (C: RS:HS 24.78)
Summary:

Thanks for the valuable series of measures of double stars. Regarding JH's method of calculating the orbit of a double star, which RE seems to have misunderstood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6856

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.164
Summary:

Has received a letter from Angelo Secchi who states that he has seen James Nasmyth's 'willow leaves.' Remainder of letter relates to the JH prism, which he sent him through Cardinal N. P. S. Wiseman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2191

From:
Adelheid Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13. Dec. 64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2270, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10183

From:
Amédée Victor Guillemin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.70
Summary:

Was pleased to receive JH's letter and criticisms on his book Le ciel. Comments on some of JH's criticisms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4714

From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 357
Summary:

Sorry to hear CD ill.

On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2192

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13/12/64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2271-2, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4715

From:
Leo Lesquereux
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G256)
Summary:

Fossil flora of the Carboniferous. Variation of forms found in coal analogous to succession of forms in peat-bogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4512

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur Young
Date:
14 December 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4717F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/8)
Summary:

Would be delighted to see FB for a few minutes but his health is so poor he doubts it would be worth the trouble for FB to visit.

Thanks about the otter-hound.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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