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DCP-LETT-354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
10 Apr [1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses possibility of publishing the zoology of the voyage of the Beagle. Will need help from more able naturalists. Would LJ object to describing the fishes for such a work rather than for scientific journals? Is working on his Beagle journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE203

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Somerville
Date:
10 Apr 1837
Source of text:
MSF 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10305

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.188
Summary:

Further information about boats in canals. Sends proof sheets of the article in question.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11740

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.102
Summary:

Intended to ride over today, but urgent mail from England claimed his attention. No news from the Admiralty. No news of the tide machine. The tripods are finished. Gathers that the Bonita cannot perform all D. F. J. Arago wished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-383A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[May? 1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169)
Summary:

Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1837-5]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Asks TM to return JH's book of star magnitudes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11831

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1837-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.190
Summary:

Returns JH's book of estimated magnitudes and would like it again when preparing his catalogue. Sends letters he received from Francis Beaufort and [Richard?] Jones. Is oppressed with business and an awful cough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12122

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[5 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.220
Summary:

About the observation of sun spots and the second satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11741

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.103
Summary:

Received the enclosed communications by the steamer. Can JH send him a list of unobserved comet stars? Work on N. L. Lacaille's Observatory gives satisfaction. Regarding Capt. Mackonochee. Lacaille's angular measurements are not above suspicion. Observed the two rings of Saturn distinctly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3840

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 May 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Has decisively mapped Saturn's sixth satellite; doubts, however, that he will ever see the seventh. Asks CH to inform Friedrich Bessel of his observation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE33

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 May 1837
Source of text:
MSB1 / 257, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel11387

From:
John Augustus Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.297
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's kindness conveyed in his letter brought to him by Mohammed Ismail Khan. The latter has been attempting to persuade JL to go to Lucknow as an engineer, but has declined pending offer from the King of Oude. Will send his observations to Francis Beaufort after JH has left the Cape. Answers some of JH's queries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 [May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35)
Summary:

Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.

Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.

CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10095

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.432
Summary:

Family news update.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[19 May – 16 June 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 52
Summary:

Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.

Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11742

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.104
Summary:

Will call on JH tomorrow as he intends visiting Simon's Bay. Is taking a proof sheet to Cape Town. There appears to be a great discrepancy between the Captain's statement and N. L. Lacaille's station. The latter's station at Rubeck Castel remains perfect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11510

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.422 & 450
Summary:

Charles Babbage will publish JH's volcanic theory in Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, together with JH's letter to R. I. Murchison. William Whewell read both at Geological Society. Babbage wants to compare JH's theory with passage from Bishop [Samuel] Butler. Whewell's notion of new species. Charles Darwin's new theory of coral islands is forcing CL to give up CL's volcanic crater theory. [Letter continues 28 May.] Sends copy of Babbage's Treatise with quotes from JH. News of Charles Wheatstone's submarine telegraph and David Brewster's proof that diamond is of vegetable origin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[28 May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36)
Summary:

CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].

Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.

Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11743

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.105
Summary:

The examination of the standard deal rod was commenced yesterday. Comments on the procedure and gives readings. The base line was levelled on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and he is now ready to measure it. Would like JH to be present if possible when he measures it. Had 25 visitors in one morning recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10335

From:
William Richard Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.218
Summary:

Introducing Franklin Lushington who is going to New Holland on a surveying expedition. The ship carrying him will call at the Cape for instructions. Has written to the Governors here to induce them to adopt the Greek style, not the Gothic for the Houses of Parliament.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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