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FVM-65-05-19b

From:
Frederick Barlee
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 May 1865
Source of text:
Acc. 49, vol. 39, no, 286, Colonial Secretary’s Office letterbooks, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-05-19

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 May 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel4431

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Mathews, Jr.
Date:
[21 May 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (101)
Summary:

Results of calculations of an equation for the relation of temperature and altitude.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11441

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.354
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Sorry to hear that JH's name is not on the Register, but can they add his name to JL's Committee? His father is very ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10832

From:
W. Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.184
Summary:

Introduces WH to JH, explains where WH fits into the Herschel family, and tells a little about WH's life.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0662

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[25 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-65-05-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
25 May 1865
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes' Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-05-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 May 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 164
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-05-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Justus von Liebig
Date:
25 May 1865
Source of text:
Dokumentensammlung Darmstaedter 1921.26, Handschriftenabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-05-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 May 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors’ letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 192
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4550

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
25 May 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4306

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Mathews, Jr.
Date:
[25 May 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (102)
Summary:

Sends results of calculations of an equation for the relation of temperature and altitude.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11936

From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.298
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Is expecting JH's son to dinner on Sunday. James Glaisher's observations all appear to point in the same direction. Will visit Collingwood when that way. Will they see JH at Birmingham for the B.A.A.S. meeting?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7811

From:
William Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.19
Summary:

Thanks for photograph of JH, but current outcry of photographers about copyright forces WW to request that JH sit for portrait in WW's own studio.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4836

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 22–3
Summary:

All overworked at Kew.

Burchell collections enormous.

Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.

Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],

disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12229

From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.86
Summary:

Has great pleasure in receiving a visit from W. C. Morland. Will be pleased to visit the Herschels. Has been travelling in Italy; visited Vesuvius and also called on Angelo Secchi, who was engaged in making a model of the sun's disc and using oat corn grains to illustrate the willow leaf effects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11442

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.355 & 24.112
Summary:

Cannot make up his mind to support either one or other of the two great political divisions at the moment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4837

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 May [1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 214)
Summary:

Thanks for Catalogue.

Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.

Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13501

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Daily News]
Date:
27] May [1865
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0735; Reel 1089
Summary:

Responds to article by Mr. Yates in Daily News of the 18 May that misrepresented JH's views on standard units of measure.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12796

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry James
Date:
[27 May 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0201; Reel 1054
Summary:

Concurs with HJ's proposal to assign Sinai survey party to H. S. Palmer. Cost of survey will be £1220. Encloses letter printed in Daily News in reply to Mr. Yates on British standards of measure, with calculations based on Capt. Clarke's results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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