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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1831]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20721
Summary:

Expresses thanks for extract on cholera. Sends a copy of a paper on double stars. Hopes soon to be able to send supplement on double star orbits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1832]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.350
Summary:

Gives permission to do anything with JH's letter; asks to be excused to J. W. Lubbock for not having written back.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.64
Summary:

Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1832-7 or later]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.196(1)
Summary:

Please send vol. 2 of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of P. S. Laplace's Mécanique céleste.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[15 August 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0746; Reel 1089
Summary:

As offered in [?]'s letter of 9 Aug. 1832, JH accepts position as member of B.A.A.S. Council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[9 December 1832]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.348
Summary:

Hopes for conveyance to Cambridge in covered vehicle for meeting of J. W. Lubbock's committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[18 September 1833]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (103)
Summary:

Describes sighting while at Slough a remarkably bright occurrence of the aurora borealis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1834 to 1838]
Source of text:
WT 65667
Summary:

Describes in detail many of the plants at the Cape, especially flowering and variously scented ones.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 1836?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626)
Summary:

[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1837 or earlier]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.59 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

Comments on letter received. Regrets replies about 'the Muriate of Chrome.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[19 Jan 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 142v
Summary:

Declines invitation to dine at Downing College because of influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[30 November 1837]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.8
Summary:

Is trying to expedite the shipping back to England of part of the zoological collection of Andrew Smith.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0410; Reel 1055
Summary:

Announces F. W. Bessel's success in measuring stellar parallax.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1838 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.1
Summary:

Appears to be commenting on JH's availability for a position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?]
Source of text:
B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982)
Summary:

Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[4 July] 1838
Source of text:
Paul Luther
Summary:

Is leaving England very shortly, so cannot meet to discuss the correspondent's Indian Survey. Provides advice on various metrological matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Sept [1838]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958)
Summary:

Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839–82]
Source of text:
Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022)
Summary:

Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1839
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0642; Reel 1089
Summary:

Will send two photometers and three-year supply of paper to [?]. One goes to J. C. Ross and one to F. Eardley Wilmot at Cape of Good Hope. Instructions for using photometers. Hopes [?] Robinson forwarded actinometers to Woolwich as JH directed. These should be checked at St. Helena. Instruction for using actinometers. Sent report to Humphrey Lloyd at B.A.A.S. Returns [?]'s Daguerre newspaper containing 'impudent notice about M. Pambour and his great Wheels.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project