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DCP-LETT-238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
Mar 1834
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 21 DAR/1/1/21)
Summary:

On fossils ([Megatherium], etc.), plants, shells sent and new ones found; geological observations. Asks for help in understanding cleavage and planes of deposition.

A new species of ostrich. Cites differences in size, colour, nidification, and geographical distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9387

From:
John Fairbairn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.141
Summary:

Would like a copy of JH's speech he made at the Infant School Society, for his report.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE193

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1 Mar 1834
Source of text:
MSF1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel9388

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Fairbairn
Date:
[1 March 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.157 (draft RS:HS 7.141verso)
Summary:

Comments on a visit to the infant school, including comments on the equality of black and white children.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12092

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[2 March 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.158
Summary:

Informs TM that JH's 20-ft. telescope is fully in operation; invites TM to come and observe with it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11680

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.45
Summary:

Points out errors in his own chronometer. Gives thermometer and barometer readings. The work of the bricklayers is very slow. Is obliged for the drawing of the nebula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE18

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
William Somerville
Date:
6 Mar 1834
Source of text:
MSB1 / 240, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE216

From:
Hudson Gurney
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
6 Mar 1834
Source of text:
MSG 2 / 263, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-239

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 & 28 Mar [1834]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 80
Summary:

They learn from a garbled report in the Times that CD’s specimens have arrived in Cambridge.

William Clift, at Royal College of Surgeons, delighted by CD’s letter about the bones that were sent to Plymouth.

Strange coincidence that Royal College of Surgeons has the front portion and CD has sent home the remainder of a skull, of which a drawing can now be completed.

Other news of family and friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11681

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.46
Summary:

The chronometer can remain at the Grove for the time being; it seems to preserve a more uniform rate than the transit clock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11682

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.47
Summary:

Invites Herschels and Dr. Duncan Stewart to dine with TM. Would like to compare their barometers. Would like also to show JH his own investigation on the mural circle. Has procured a chameleon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-240

From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Mar] 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 126
Summary:

A letter full of news of Cambridge and friends: the BAAS meeting at Cambridge; charges of corruption in the University; the Cambridge petition on behalf of Dissenters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3976

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1834]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0579.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reviews his voyage to Africa in case CH did not receive JH's 1834-1-21 letter. Repairing the house that they bought outside of Cape Town, called 'Feldhausen' by the Dutch and 'The Grove' by the English; they are staying at another home close by. Happy that Table Mountain near the house shelters Feldhausen from southeast gales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Lumb
Date:
30 Mar 1834
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (2006)
Summary:

CD asks the time of shipment and vessel in which the [Megatherium] bones were conveyed.

Patagonia swarms with guanaco, but few other creatures.

Hopes to be able to draw up a tolerable sketch of the geology of the east side of S. America.

Saw Jemmy Button, who is married and will stay in Tierra del Fuego. Mentions Falkland uprising.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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