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Herschel3406

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399a (C: RI 536)
Summary:

Sends copy of JT's '3rd Memoir,' along with specimens of liquid mercury ethyl and mercury methyl from discoverers Edward Frankland and B. F. Duppa.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4766

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 71
Summary:

MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4526

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Comte de Paris
Date:
7 February 1865
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 477-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
8 Feb 1865
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Requests all parts of Transactions due him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4527

From:
Faraday and Sarah Faraday
To:
Mary Chater Barnard
Date:
9 February 1865
Source of text:
Dennis Embleton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 260
Summary:

Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.

His health has been wretched.

Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4770

From:
August Schleicher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 53
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];

announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8560

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Walter] White
Date:
[10 February 1865]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Asks WW to check the R.S.L. council book for 23 Nov. 1826 to inform JH as to who was present.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6860

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.168
Summary:

Was pleased to receive JH's letter requesting him to communicate the subject to the Society. Has been busy preparing the Annual Report so has not had time to follow up Mr. Traye's papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001728

From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
William Sharpey, Atheneum Club
Date:
11 February 1865
Source of text:
MM/22/73, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4282

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.96
Summary:

R.S.L. approves of CP's optical work, believing it will be helpful at observatories abroad. CP comments on Alexander Herschel's prism experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11519

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.432
Summary:

Regarding the editions in which he cited JH's paper. Further comments on James Croll's paper, and on the effects of glacial and astronomical events. Is the quantity of heat radiated by the sun in the course of the year always the same? Thanks for the drawings of the Botzen columns.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12584

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W[illiam] J. Millar
Date:
[11 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.90
Summary:

On the significance of the full moon and its influence on the weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1267

From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.31
Summary:

At JH's request, WW sends JH a list of members present at the 'irregular' council meeting on 23 Nov. 1826, together with the business recorded in the minutes, which does not include any mention of the matter of the secretaryship of the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1268

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Philosophical Magazine
Date:
[12 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.34
Summary:

Attempts further clarification of the matter discussed in JH's 1864-12-20 to the P.M. Reiterates JH's recollection of a conversation between W. H. Wollaston and Humphry Davy, which JH had described in a letter [see JH's 1826-11-25 to Francis Baily] and which JH refers to in his letter of resignation to Davies Gilbert [see JH's 1827-6-27], which latter letter JH quotes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4771

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
14 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.

The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6557

From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.301
Summary:

Thanks for his letter concerning his own paper on the changes in climate. Points out parts where JH seems to have been mistaken in his views as expressed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 February 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 261
Summary:

Darwin compliments ARW's papers published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society on geographical distribution in the Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Feb 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 261
Summary:

Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.

How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?

Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.

A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.

Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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