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Herschel9440

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.189
Summary:

Will be showing some experiments in the laboratory next Monday to G. B. Airy, François Marcet, and a few others; JH would be welcome.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11774

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.134
Summary:

William Mann returns to England still in poor health. Expresses concern over running of Edinburgh Observatory by C. P. Symth. Regrets poor data from Cape Observatory on Comet of 1843. Observed Comet Gambert. Situation with Caffres hostile.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Mar or 5 Apr] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 114: 58
Summary:

If JDH can send grasses CD will write to Ehrenberg enclosing them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-967F

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1846
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9)
Summary:

Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11976

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.338
Summary:

The first volume of JM's Logic has been printed and the printers require what is ready of the second volume. In Book Three would like comments from JH regarding the difference with P. S. Laplace's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
30 Mar [1846]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses publication of his book [South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-968

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 64–5
Summary:

Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-968F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
31 Mar [1846]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of Frémont 1845. Has had a visit from R. J. Mackintosh and his wife Mary, Appleton’s sister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9364

From:
Edward Everett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.116
Summary:

Sending a letter for a Benjamin Peirce, one of the professors at the University of Cambridge (Mass.). EE has just assumed the presidency of this university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000594

From:
John Smeaton
To:
Council of the Royal Society
Date:
31 March 1846
Source of text:
MM/11/10, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-969

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
31 [Mar 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for his note; as soon as CD knows how many Cordillera Tertiary fossil shells require illustration he will make arrangements for GBS jr to begin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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