From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
1] March [1838
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Asks TM to set JH's chronometer and barometer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Grant
Date:
[6 March 1838]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
[Writing to Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg, British Secretary of State for the Colonies], JH advises on such aspects as the administration, staffing, and the form and content of the instruction at the newly established Government Free Schools at the Cape.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[6 March 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0423; Reel 1055
Summary:
Packing to leave Cape. Desires only furnished lodgings, not new house, for month of May in London. [Letter continues 6 May 1838 on board Windsor :] Becalmed off France. Expect to land in Portsmouth and visit Anstey on way to London.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
1838-3[-7]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.244
Summary:
Final arrangements before JH and family depart for England.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Fairbairn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.151
Summary:
JH is leaving the Cape at an unfortunate time as the Governor has to rely on the support of an unsympathetic party. Comments on the political situation at the Cape. The Herschels have done much good for the Cape since their residence there.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Buckland
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
9 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47)
Summary:
Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bastard James
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 10 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 43
Summary:
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[18 March 1838]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/14
Summary:
Thanks for specimens of [light] 'sensitive paper.' Praises it. JH has handed over all his specimens of photography to R.S.L. Recommends a paper by the chemist Henri Regnault.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
20 Mar 1838
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 94, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A1–2
Summary:
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[27 March 1838]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/15
Summary:
Thanks for photographic specimens WT sent. Reports on JH's recent experiments, including some using lenses, in photography; comments on WT's experiments and on the process of patenting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Eugène (Eugène) Robert
Date:
28 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Robert 1840 , pp. 443–4
Summary:
Discusses the geology of volcanic islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0424; Reel 1087
Summary:
Forwards to JH letters sent by Humphrey Lloyd and G. B. Airy to William Whewell. Concurs with Lloyd's recommendations [for Canada survey] and with Airy's suggestion of photographic registers to determine simultaneity of distant observations. [JH note: Routing list for letter among committee members.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project