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LINNEAN1800

From:
Joseph Bosworth
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
2 Oct 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/72, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Congratulates Smith on his return to health and goes on to praise Smith's "most valuable and learned works on botany", the women in his family are especially delighted with the "The English Flora" and Smith's "precision" compares favourably to the "vapid conversations and trite introductions to botany that have lately appeared". For the sake of women readers suggests that in his "Introduction to Botany" Smith accentuates the "peculiar" words so as to aid pronunciation.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel14670

From:
Mary Pitt Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0623.15; Reel 1086
Summary:

Received JH's letter from Munich. Arrangements for getting JH's belongings through Customs. Will meet JH in London. Mr. Pitt is unable to paint telescope tube due to foul weather. Scandal of Mr. White's will. Recent deaths.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5254

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[3 October 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.199
Summary:

His recent tours in Italy and Germany, and the people he met.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L674

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
4 octobre 1824
Source of text:
().
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel13239

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0517.26; Reel 1053
Summary:

News of relatives and friends in Hanover. Caroline Herschel is working on catalog of nebulae. [Letter continued 7 Oct. in Minden:] News of German scientists. Suspects that JH and H. W. M. Olbers are distantly related.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN2182

From:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
5 Oct 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/23/10, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Apologises again for apparent attacks on Smith in "Flora Scotia", which he will correct in the next edition; thanks for mention of botanical errors, but still differs on matters of opinion, including: does not agree about 'Salix', maintains criticism of "English botany" figure of 'Aquilegia vulgaris', cannot credit Smith for his work on 'Mentha' due to space, took his ideas on sexes of 'Tussilago' from multiple authors. Most hurt that Smith believes rumours that John Lindley [(1799-1865)] was the principal author, explains his involvement.

From Smith's paper on 'Hypnum recognitum' in "Linnean Transactions" vol 13 presumes he has not seen his own account of 'Hypnum recognitum' in "Flora Londinensis". Concedes he made an error respecting 'Rubus chamaemorus'.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel14671

From:
Mary Pitt Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0623.16; Reel 1086
Summary:

Painting of telescope begun. Thomas Baldwin Jr.'s wife soon to give birth. Charles Babbage reported being robbed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L930

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
9 octobre 1824
Source of text:
Lettres inédites de Claude-Julien Bredin (Lyon: 1936), p. 168-169.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel5255

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.200
Summary:

Is glad to hear of his speedy return. Regarding JH's instruments and their passage through the customs. Is writing a book on Assurance Companies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN3484

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
James De Carle Sowerby
Date:
10 Oct 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/JS/20, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Returns plates [for "Flora Graeca"] with his approval; unfortunate accident with drawing of 'Reseda alba', though it is only the first accident of the kind. Sowerby's name engraver is a "precious blockhead", wishes him to copy only what he writes. Instructions on use of capital letters.

Uncertain what sort of zoologists Sowerby is working with, "but most of them now are doing all they can to corrupt the science, splitting & subdividing without science or learning"; laments the mischief caused at the British Museum by [William Elford] Leach, "his labours [...] are only a monument of his insanity". Discusses 'Patella craniolaris' of Linnaeus. His late complaint of cholera "quite gone". Sends 10 drawings, 476-485.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel13240

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0517.27; Reel 1053
Summary:

Will return earlier than planned. Comments of Mrs. Moorsom's misfortune and new children born to Baldwins and Babbages. [Letter continued in Rotterdam:] Journey from Cleves [Kleve] to Rotterdam. Report of new propulsion device for sailing vessels.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L901

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Marc-Auguste Pictet
Date:
21 octobre 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance. Sciences et techniques, t. II Les correspondants français (Genève: 1998), p. 55-56.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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L931

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
22 octobre 1824
Source of text:
Lettres inédites de Claude-Julien Bredin (Lyon: 1936), p. 169-170.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel9329

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.83
Summary:

Finds no errors in JH's letter on the parallax of Mars. Sends his own calculations. Has not found the barometrical readings JH requested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0243

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Colquhoun
Date:
22 October 1824
Source of text:
William J.F. Cocks
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4052

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1824]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0569.3.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Happy to be reunited with mother. JH thanks CH for his enjoyable stay in Hanover. Wishes CH well on her [catalogue of] nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9985

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Grahame
Date:
[25 October 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.320 (C: RS:HS 20.187)
Summary:

About the last part of JH's continental travels, including his visit to Caroline Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN2150

From:
Samuel Hailstone
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
27 Oct 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/22/71, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

He and James Backhouse found 'Woodsia hyperbora' growing near High Teesdale, Yorkshire, last summer. Was unable to find 'Cyathea dentata', though may have mistaken 'Woodsia hyperbora' for it. 'Cyathea fragilis', 'Asplenium viride', and 'A. trichomanes' grow there abundantly. Sending specimens of the 'Woodsia hyperbora'. Found 'Aspedium lobatum' in woods near Redcar, [Yorkshire].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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L675

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jean-Jacques Ampère (fils d'Ampère)
Date:
28 octobre 1824
Source of text:
().
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0243a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederic Daniell
Date:
29 October 1824
Source of text:
KCL MS Daniell 1/14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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