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Herschel11112

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander K. Johnston
Date:
[25 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.449 & 23.259
Summary:

Has just received the first part of Johnston's General Atlas for which accept his very best thanks. It is a beautiful work. Has been working at cartography himself and produced a projection of 97-100ths of the whole surface of the globe in one chart. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13521

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Philip] [Kelland
Date:
[25 March 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0754; Reel 1089
Summary:

Willing to referee paper by J. D. Forbes. Just received [PK]'s biography of Thomas Henderson, whom JH wishes had remained longer at Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12053

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[25 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.419
Summary:

Sending details of his idea for a new projection of the sphere. If printed will need the maps re-engraved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-523

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 79
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel14421

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Received order for self-recording photographic instruments for magnetic observations from Mr. Bolyani, who plans to improve observatory at University of Kazan. ES quoted prices for making these in London and invited Bolyani to inspect observatory at Kew. ES now prefers Shanghai to Peking as site for observatory. Geographic distribution of global observatories. Reading JH's 'Physical Geography' [1859]. Sends two sunspot photographs from Kew.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12054

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.420
Summary:

Thanks for his memoir on the projection of the sphere; it will be read at their meeting after next Monday. Up to their necks in the Yang-ste-kiang.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8342

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
G. Bramwell
Date:
[27 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.145 (C draft: RS:HS 23.260)
Summary:

Testimonial in favor of R. C. Carrington to succeed late M. J. Johnson as director of Radcliffe observatory. Understands that W. S. Jacobs is also a candidate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-03-28

From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 March 1859
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 1, p. 156, Melbourne Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163)
Summary:

Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2438

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
29 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Requests receipt for payments to Society in 1858–9.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-03-29

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 789, unit 4, p. 179, VPRS 1187 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-03-29a

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/948, unit 3, p. 61, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-03-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Horne
Date:
30 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 1862, unit 5, VPRS 963 register of correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 94
Summary:

Hopes Murray will publish after seeing MS [of Origin].

Demurs at JDH’s saying that CD changes climate to account for migration of bugs, flies, etc. "We do nothing of the sort; for we rest on scored rocks, old moraines, arctic shells, and mammifers." Has given up the Lyellian doctrine as insufficient to explain all changes in climate; CD has no theory about the cause of the cold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2439

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.164)
Summary:

CD is grateful to CL for his help in arranging with Murray for publication [of Origin]. Sorry Murray objects to term "abstract" in title, but will defer to him and CL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1639

From:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
To:
Thomas Sims
Date:
30 March 1859
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/108
Summary:

A request for Sims’s opinion on whether a collection of back papers of the Family Herald would be suitable to send to ARW, if they were cheaply bound into a volume. Mrs Wallace regrets that Thomas and Fanny Sims live too far away to be able visit her more often.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2441

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.12–13)
Summary:

CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish his work on the origin of species. Will send some chapters as soon as copyist has finished. Sends list of 12 chapters. It will be a popular abstract of more than 20 years’ work. It ought to be popular with scientific and semi-scientific readers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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