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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS Sa.671
Summary:

Had hoped to attend ES's soiree, but has influenza. Praises ES's report on Mr. McClintock's magnetic observations at Port Barrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0528; Reel 1093
Summary:

Encloses description of Col. [J. T.?] Walker's experiments. Asks for JH's opinion of these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1864-6-9 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0360.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Pendulum experiments to be conducted at stations of Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0376; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 24.47)
Summary:

Plans to confer with [J. T.] Walker and F. A. T. Winnecke from Pulkovo to learn of Russian pendulum experiments before reporting to R.S.L. council. J. H. Pratt's measurement of polar axis and theory about earth's center of gravity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[16 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS MC.7.99
Summary:

Gives reasons for and discusses technicalities of supporting pendulum experiments at astronomical and geodesical stations in Indian trigonometrical survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
9 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/10/81, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
9 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/35, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
JP Basevi
Date:
27 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
20 September 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/36, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 November 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/37, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 1
Summary:

Announces that the Council of the Royal Society has awarded CD the Copley Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Glenbow Archives, Calgary (M 4843, file 17)
Summary:

Thanks ES in connection with award [of Copley Medal].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
7 November 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 11 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/2/10/297, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
13th November 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/2/10/298, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
24 November 1864
Source of text:
MM/10/72, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine; Royal Society of London
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 388)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his "splendid eulogium" [in Presidential Address to Royal Society on award of Copley Medal]. CD would have liked him to have said "a little more" about Origin.

CD feels no doubt about natural selection. Has heard from Germany of "a string of excellent men" who accept it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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