From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.75
Summary:
Demonstrates easier way to treat equations analogous to P. S. Laplace's.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 [Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 148
Summary:
Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.
Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.
Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 391
Summary:
List of most anomalous Leguminosae [from George Bentham].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.76
Summary:
Please correct error in HW's earlier calculations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Dec. 12th. 1854.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/379, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
12 December 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.163
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Turnbull
Date:
12 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 3 (EH 88206055)
Summary:
Thanks for subscription to Down Coal and Clothing Club, whose finances are improving.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.19
Summary:
Sends JH a copy of a recent issue of the Athenaeum in which falsehoods, copied from a Richard Sheepshanks pamphlet, have been printed. CB wants JH to respond to, and correct, these falsehoods quickly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Knights
Date:
14 December 1854
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 14th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/210; MS JT/1/HTYP/380, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Arthur Trevelyan
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15 Dec. 54.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/5/1775, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
FAM 124, Elton Hall
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Richard Bentley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.80
Summary:
Asks JH for the manuscript of Lieut. Burton's travels, which was forwarded by way of JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[15 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.20
Summary:
Refuses to become a partisan in this conflict [see CB's 1854-12-13]. JH would only become involved if he felt he could be a peacemaker.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
16 December 1854
Source of text:
L55/36, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
16 December 1854
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 147.For a copy of most of this letter see B55.13.09. W. Hooker's editorial changes have only been noted where they change the sense of the MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.375.308
Summary:
Appear to be answers to specific queries about examinations and tutors [at Cambridge?].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.7
Summary:
Talks about their son Alexander's nature, and JH's busy weekend and headaches.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Bentley
Date:
[18 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.81
Summary:
In response to RB's letter of 1854-12-15, JH states that the manuscript of Lieut. Burton's travels was not given to JH for transmission, JH has never heard of RB in connection with this manuscript, nor had JH received an earlier letter, and finally JH does not have the manuscript.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[20 December 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0712; Reel 1089
Summary:
Mint salaries and bills have exhausted present funds. Please ask Treasury for another £12,000.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Addressee
- 7th Earl of Shaftesbury1
- Airy, George Biddell3
- Babbage, Charles1
- Bentley, Richard1
- Cottans & Hallen, Engineers1
- Coxe, James1
- Darwin, C. R.2
- Faraday, Lucy Reid1
- Faraday, Michael6
- Gye, Frederick1
- Haines, William1
- Harness, Henry Drury1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, John8
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie2
- Herschel, Margaret Louisa1
- Higgins, John1
- Hirst, Thomas Archer3
- Holland, Saba1
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Hooker, William1
- Knights, George2
- Layard, Austen Henry1
- Patterson, Robert1
- Riess, Peter1
- Samuelson, J.1
- Smith, Saba1
- Turnbull, G. H.1
- Tyndall, John6
- [Trevelyan, Charles Edward]1
- [Ward, Edward Wolstenholme]1
- [unknown person]1
- FEWER