From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B37–8
Summary:
Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.17
Summary:
Indian Triangulation chart showed progress to May 1862. Explains why arcs of meridians and parallels were chosen over diagonal braces. G. B. Airy's method of determining errors helped. Will take note and package from Maria [Herschel] to JH's son John.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 62 (EH 88206045)
Summary:
Requests addresses of J. E. Planchon, W. F. Hofmeister and M. J. Schleiden so he can send them copies of Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
16 December 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 29
Summary:
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16th Dec. /64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/235; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2035, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Busk
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 17th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/163; MS JT/1/TYP/1/179, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17th Decr 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/238; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1397, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
18 December 1864
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Martiusiana II, A, 2, Munich
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.28 (Draft: BL Aaa 32309.172)
Summary:
Believes that John Davy's letter to the Philosophical Magazine was suggested by James South. To defend himself, CB now needs JH's permission to publish some of their correspondence.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0488; Reel 1093
Summary:
Offers JS's wind observations, as requested in JH's ['Weather and Weather Prophets' (1864)] in Good Words.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1180; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2077, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1864]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (100)
Summary:
Will distribute copies of a JH paper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
29 (1865), pp. 218-31, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George L. Paulin and J. S. L. Paulin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0405; Reel 1087
Summary:
Enclose table of GP's and JP's observations, inspired by JH's article in Jan. 1864 Good Words. Apologize for disputing JH's authority, but GP and JP found that full moon has no influence on local cloud cover.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
Tuesday Evg
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, St Bride Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 49
Summary:
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
20 December 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F43
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[20 December 1864]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 32309.184 (ACCS: RS:HS B27.26)
Summary:
Gives CB permission to publish the portions of letters requested by him. JH tells CB that he has responded to John Davy's letter in the PM.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James South
Date:
[20 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.25a
Summary:
As JH has been approached by Charles Babbage for permission to publish certain portions of JH's correspondence, JH is writing to say that he gives both Babbage and JS permission to publish what they will.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project