From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 25th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/481, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[26 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.26
Summary:
On the observation of sun spots.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26] January 1864
Source of text:
RGO 6.85.158
Summary:
Raises with GA the likelihood of an error in a date of a transit of Mercury in a paper by F. A. Winnecke.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 January 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.358.267
Summary:
Has been asked to reweigh the damaged Parliamentary standard pound weight; thinks that W. H. Miller would be a more suitable person to do the job.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/192, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/193, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
27 January 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f.139
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.270
Summary:
Regarding Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle), the Treasury and the Commission on Weights and Measures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 218
Summary:
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 97
Summary:
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Reusch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 28, 1864
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 192-4; MS JT/1/R/16, Phil. Mag.; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. W. A. Argelander
Date:
[28 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.27
Summary:
Thanks for FA's star atlas series, one of which is a duplicate; reports apparent variation of a nebula.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Alexander Hamilton
Date:
[28 January 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0177; Reel 1054
Summary:
Received report by Lord Monteagle [Thomas Spring-Rice] on Standard Platinum Pound. Agrees to participate with members of 1853 Standards Committee in reexamining standards.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.24
Summary:
Expresses thanks for the writings JH has sent him; asks for other writings by JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
29 January 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to inform his uncle [Reverend John Gunn] that H. Christy will send him a set of [geological] specimens from the Dordogne cave, which illustrate the strata where relics of man are found. They will be sent through Falconer. JDH wishes to show Gunn some of his Wedgwood pottery: a plaque by John Flaxman showing Achilles & Hector at Troy, a medallion of Mitten & Erasmus by Goldsmith, & one of the Prince & Princess of Wales along with 40 other portraits. In a note added under the signature he adds that Grove has told him about flint implements found in a cave at Bethlehem.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
30 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/194, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. W. A. Argelander
Date:
[30 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.28
Summary:
Mistaken about seeming duplicate [see JH's 1864-1-28].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
François N. M. Moigno
Date:
[30 January 1864]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.29 (Cdraft: RS:HS 25.15.20 & ACCS: TxU:H/L-0244; Reel 1054)
Summary:
FM has published, in translation, JH's article ['Weather and Weather Prophets' (1864)], already published in Good Words. JH was not aware that this was FM's intent, and JH warns him that some editors may be sensitive about such matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
31 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Reminds CWC that he offered to give information with respect to his observations on hollyhocks. Wishes he could persuade CWC to undertake experiments on the fertility of some crosses between the most distinct varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B23–4
Summary:
Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
