From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.180 & 181
Summary:
Note with some photographs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mr. Eyre
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.140
Summary:
Will be pleased for JH to see the house and grounds at any time.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of Saturday Review
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0382; Reel 1054
Summary:
Passionately protests bill before Parliament for compulsory adoption of French metric system, 'a piece of French national vanity.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[1 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.80
Summary:
Thanks WS for his Iliad translation. JH has just finished Book 3 of his own translation of the Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
RS Sa.684
Summary:
Fragment of a letter discussing diffraction, JH's son's journey to observe eclipse and strong polarization of sun's corona, evidence of vast solar atmosphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1865?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.263, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
--1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.113, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 1st 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/2/10/323, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
c. 1865
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 312
Summary:
Has received proofs of four plates of Papilios. Encloses a tracing of specimens for fig. 4 (P. telephus) and fig. 5 P. miletus and P. jason. Wants more contrast shown.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 245
Summary:
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2] January 1865
Source of text:
JHS 6.59
Summary:
Discusses at length the means of calculating the mean daily rainfall in India, and comments on son John's work in geodesy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas L. Dames
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.467
Summary:
Will be very pleased to assist him in obtaining the fossils, but can he give him the location of the quarries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville
Date:
[before 3 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
Scotsman , 19 July 1929, p. 13
Summary:
Ludwig Rütimeyer thanks CAB for the skull of a Chillingham cow, and thinks it may belong to the Primigenius race.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 164: 23
Summary:
Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Lucas Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 January 1865
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 176: 227
Summary:
Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.
Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Thomas Longley
Date:
[3 January 1865]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Has received the notice of the meeting, but regrets his ill health will prevent his attendance at the meeting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 211)
Summary:
Thanks for photograph, charmed by Mrs Huxley’s letter.
Regrets THH cannot do the popular work on zoology.
Has heard THH wrote leading article in last Reader ["Science and ""church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.239
Summary:
Thanks for his friendly letter written on Christmas day. Regarding the Cambridge Observations just published. His own theories of hydrodynamics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Samuel Hannaford
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 January 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project