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Herschel3076

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.241
Summary:

Thanks for letter of 3 December and for encouragement. Informs JH that 30 observatories participated in observation of winter solstice. Is beginning to study humans in their different relations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
7 Feb 1842
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:

Asks De la Beche about variation among domesticated animals in Jamaica.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000663

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
8 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/170, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000664

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Physical Committee
Date:
9 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/171, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3770

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Is confident that by summer his sweeps will all be reduced and arranged in three catalogs for JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001793

From:
Samuel Hunter Christie, the Royal Society, Somerset Place
To:
Honorable East India Company
Date:
11 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/25/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10418

From:
Thomas Henderson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.299
Summary:

Thanks for letter and printed address and for the favorable notice of his investigations into Alpha Centauri. Comments on these and some of his observations on other stars. Encloses a note of the position of seven circumpolar stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000471

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
12 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/9/51, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3282

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[13 February 1842]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/28
Summary:

On RM's stepping down as president of Geological Society. Where exactly abroad will RM pursue enquiries?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8701

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas I. M. Forster
Date:
[13 February 1842]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Has been ill for two months. Will be visited by Dr. Andrew Smith shortly. Hopes TF can come to Collingwood to meet Smith.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000665

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
16 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/172, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000666

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
unknown
Date:
17 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/173, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
R.S.L. Physical Committee
Date:
[17 February 1842]
Source of text:
RS MM 11.171 & 173
Summary:

Discusses how exceptional observations of meteorological and magnetical phenomena should be recorded and what significance should be attached to them. Cannot attend next meeting of committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-619

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
17 Feb [1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

CD approves of HES’s "laws" [of nomenclature]. Regrets that [J. E.?] Gray does not approve of the scheme. CD has sent the paper to William Ogilby and suggests that HES send it to G. R. Waterhouse, of whom he has a high opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000667

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
19 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/174, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-620

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
[19 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[22 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 10
Summary:

Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].

Plans to visit Shrewsbury.

Describes behaviour of William Darwin.

Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000668

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
23 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/175, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel468

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 February 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.427.74
Summary:

Thanks GA for exercising GA's usual discretion in the matter of the funding of Charles Babbage's calculating machine [see GA's 1842-9-26].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6159

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1842-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.285
Summary:

Proposes to come to London to visit him. Has just received the proofs of Robert Maine's paper on parallax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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