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WCP1926

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 October 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 191-192
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel10520

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.397
Summary:

His last note on the Julian period puzzled him. Has not taken many double star measurements, but will send on a few later. Has not finished the ecliptical charts yet. Regarding a planet more distant than Neptune.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6955

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
23 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 11–12)
Summary:

Would be delighted to have JJM translate new book [Descent].

Can CD legally bring out new edition of Origin in France with new publisher? Has been ill-used by V. Masson and C. Royer. Wants edition without Royer’s preface.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel581

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 October 1869]
Source of text:
RGO 6.361.631
Summary:

Continues to rail against the imposition of the metric system in India; argues against any change in the British sovereign coin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2612

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[23 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.288
Summary:

Is working on a compilation of the measures of double stars. If [Rudolf] Wolf's period of 11.11 years is correct, why should 1810-11, a minimum, mark the first observations of solar spots?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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