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SOMERVILLE284

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
20 Sep 1845
Source of text:
HS 16.351, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE287

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Nov 1845
Source of text:
HS 16.352, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE286

From:
John Herschel
To:
Spencer J A Compton
Date:
2 Nov 1845
Source of text:
RS MC.4.92, Epsilon
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE288

From:
Spencer J A Compton
To:
John Herschel
Date:
11 Nov 1845
Source of text:
HS 5.269, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE289

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Feb 1846
Source of text:
HS 16.353, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

RS-MM-000678

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
29 September 1846
Source of text:
MM/11/184, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000679

From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
20 October 1846
Source of text:
MM/11/185, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE290

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
8 Aug 1847
Source of text:
HS 16.354, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE291

From:
John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
7 Dec 1847
Source of text:
HS 15.431, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-1151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1848
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 11)
Summary:

Undertakes to write geological part of Admiralty Instructions [A manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Has doubts as to his success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001097

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Herschel
Date:
3 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/134, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE294

From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
6 Mar 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.406, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

RS-MM-001098

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
9 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/135, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001099

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
10 March 1848
Source of text:
MM/16/136, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1164

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
[21 Mar 1848]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 14)
Summary:

Sends MS of his chapter on geology for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Fears it may be too long. Does not much like it but can do no better. After hesitation, has recommended books. Defends his point that mere collection of rock specimens is "of hardly any use to Geology".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE295

From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Mar 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.407, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE296

From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
26 Mar 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.408, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE297

From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
10 Apr 1848
Source of text:
HS 16.409, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-1173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
7 May [1848]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 15)
Summary:

Sends MS of "Geology" for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. First parcel lost. Asks JFWH to give advice on an unclear note, translated from Élie de Beaumont, on measuring incline of lava-flows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1175

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
11 May [1848]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 12)
Summary:

Describes colour changes from blue to red in valves of operculum of the cirripede genus Ibla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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