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DCP-LETT-5702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip
Date:
[before 1 Dec 1867]
Source of text:
Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3 (1867): 280
Summary:

Sends, as corroboration of earlier articles on hedgehogs carrying fruit on their spines, a passage from a letter from R. Swinhoe [5598] describing hedgehogs carrying strawberries to their holes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5703

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 7
Summary:

Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1898

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edwin Dunkin
Date:
186[7]-12-1
Source of text:
WT 67469
Summary:

Deals with several problems related to several papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9819

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.154
Summary:

Is pleased to hear his own sons are progressing well. Hopes Caroline (JH's daughter) will soon be able to come out. Is temporarily in charge of the Bombay army, which gives him plenty of work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel579

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 December 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.543 (C: TxU:H/L-0026)
Summary:

Is still trying to bring the various definitions of the pound into agreement [see GA's 1867-11-30]; the question of weighing in air or vacuum remains as a problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13058

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[2 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0471.1 & -0471.2; Reel 1055
Summary:

'Not Sent.' Clarifies values quoted in JH's letter of 5 Nov. to RS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5703F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry James Slack
Date:
2 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Bruun Rasmussen (dealers) (March 2016)
Summary:

Explains that he has made it a rule not to write for periodicals, however eminent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1823

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0643.3 (C: RGO 6.359.545)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his useful letter [see JH's 1867-12-2]; it will be of value to the Commission on Weights and Measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5704

From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 53
Summary:

A sermon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel580

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 December 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.546 (C: TxU:H/L-0027)
Summary:

Having helped to create confusion surrounding the pound weight [see GA's 1867-12-3], JH now understands it simply and clearly; JH wonders if he is 'growing elderly.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14144

From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3] December 1867
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0371; Reel 1087
Summary:

Compares values obtained by various observers in measuring new standards of weight and length.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2980

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1867]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #47
Summary:

Apologizes for not writing sooner. Busy with trip to Italy. Announces intention to dedicate entire next year to his Physique sociale. Thanks JH for his comments on AQ's son's work on temperature. Also grateful for commendation on AQ's history of science. Brings up AQ's son's work on proper motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1824

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0643.4 (C: RGO 6.359.548)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his clear letter [see JH's 1867-12-3] about the pound weight standards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5705

From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243
Summary:

JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].

Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5706

From:
Isabella Elinor Darling; Isabella Elinor Aylmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 136
Summary:

Thanks CD for showing her proofs [of Variation] relating to cattle at Chillingham Park [see Variation 1: 81, 83–4]; has made abstracts of them for her own article.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10250

From:
F. A. Herschel Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.136
Summary:

Was grateful for his kind note and check. Family is still in difficulties. Employed by a Liverpool firm to sell engineering articles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12704

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Pierce Butler
Date:
[5 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0119; Reel 1054
Summary:

Describes JH's theodolite by G. F. Reichenbach and offers to loan it for PB's survey [of Sinai Peninsula].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12855

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[5 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0262; Reel 1054
Summary:

Discusses WM's reply regarding commercial weight of new Standard Pound.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2009

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 December 1867
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 355-356
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 27-28]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel3101

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.266
Summary:

Discusses coming year. Asks JH how to deal with JH's review [of AQ's Lettres sur la théorie des probabilités]. Talks about his friend [Michel] Chasles. Also about AQ's son. Mentions JH's translation of [J. C. F. von] Schiller's 'Spaziergang.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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