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LINNEAN2038

From:
Susan E Corrie
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
4 Feb 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/73, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for book ["A grammar of botany" (1821)]; likes it the more because of its dedication to her mother [Susan Corrie]. Account of flowers showing in their garden: snow drops, Christmas roses, Dutch tulips, Scotch crocus, and double crimson hepaticas. Believes her tiger moth chrysalis is dead. Sends drawings of moths [extant].

Four drawings of moths and an insect, pencil on card: '[Phalaena] batis', '[Phalaena] dives', '[Phalaena] lichenaria', 'Tenthredo lutea' [dated 22 February].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel5204

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.152
Summary:

Hopes JH will meet CB and Francis Baily in the near future to discuss arrangements for the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8200

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Date:
[9 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.9
Summary:

HO was elected associate of Astronomical Society. Prize for 1821 relates to Saturn's satellites.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8184

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexis Bouvard
Date:
[10 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.3
Summary:

AB was elected to new Astronomical Society. Extracts from 11 Feb. 1821 letter to C. F. Gauss.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN1288

From:
William Roscoe
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
10 Feb 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/17/127, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Greatly pleased to meet Corrêa today at [Robert] Brown's but unsure whether he intends to visit Smith at Norwich even though Corrêa is to stay much longer than he expected. Had a "stout tug" with Brown on 'Scitamineae', particularly 'Thalia', but could not decide whether [Edward] Rudge's plants should be united with 'Maranta', 'Thalia', or form a new genus; discusses the new genus, 'Calathea', formed from 'Maranta casupo' Jacquin "Fragmenta [botanica]" in [Georg Friedrich Wilhelm] Meyer's new "[Primitiae] florae Essequeboensis".

Informed by Fanny Blackwell that her mother, Mrs Blackwell, is kept alive only by use of blisters; doubts her recovery. Lady [Anne Margaret] Anson's [(1779-1843)] daughter, Georgiana, has very ill but past the worst. Thanks the Smiths for their hospitality at Norwich.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel8685

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Date:
[11 February 1821]
Source of text:
NSUB Cod.Ms.Gauss 99 (draft: RS:HS 8.72 & C: 20.111)
Summary:

CG has been elected associate of the Astronomical Society. Hopes the benefits will be mutual. Details of the prize subject for the present year. Has read CG's communications on the Reichenbach circle to the Society, where it evoked great interest. Comments on this. CG's certificate has been signed by Fearon Fallows, newly appointed Cape astronomer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8522

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean-Baptiste Delambre
Date:
[11 February 1821]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Announces election of JD as associate member of the Astronomical Society. [In a postscript,] JH states that the Society's prize for next year will be on the theory of the motions of Saturn's satellites.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN2118

From:
Thomas Furly Forster
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Feb 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/22/42, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

[Thomas] Hare wishes to dedicate a medical work to Smith. Recently hosted a party attended by Gray, Bennett, Edward Hartford, William Smith, Taylor, and Gibson. Believes the 'Silene' he found at Binfield, [Berkshire], is not 'S. lusitanica'; observations, including small ink sketch of petals; requests specimens to compare it against. [William Jackson] Hooker's "Flora Scotia" to be published soon.

[Note attached to verso of second folio] Title of Hare's book is "Considerations on the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the Stomach and Alimentary Organs of the Human Body..." [(1821)].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel7774

From:
William Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1821]
Source of text:
RAS:WH Archive 1/11.5; Reel 12
Summary:

Gratitude for election to Astronomical Society. Notes on double star Zeta Orionis. Regards to James South.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9967

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1821-2-15 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.302
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5916

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.39
Summary:

Regarding the printing of the report and sanction of council. Details several points on which he requires guidance. New observatories in India. Can JH dine with him on Thursday?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Postmaster?]
Date:
[18 February 1821]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0747; Reel 1089
Summary:

Complains of delay in receiving mail, which was addressed to Colnbrook but misdirected to Abingdon and to Marlow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5207

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.155
Summary:

Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on the Astronomical Society. Joseph Banks and his opposition to CB. Recent happenings in the Astronomical Society. Thanks for the volumes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN1790

From:
Francis Boott
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
20 Feb 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/2/63, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Recovering from a severe bout of typhus. Has heard Smith is working on fourth volume of "Flora Britannica", gives habitat for a rare 'Clavaria ardenia' of [James] Sowerby.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2574

From:
José Francisco Corrêa de Serra
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
20 Feb 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/109, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Received Smith's letter of 17 February and is surprised by his impatience. Reiterates circumstances in attempts to find a position for Smith's nephew, Smith wishes for him a "more suitable career than trade", and whilst he would have been happy to take him to the United States it would only be out of friendship to Smith, and circumstances are now changed by his going to Brazil. Offers instead to have him received in the most credible mercantile houses in Brazil and in addition if he chooses to settle in Brazil to obtain a grant of land for him.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2318

From:
John Nichols
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
26 Feb 1821/3 Mar 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/37, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Lists autographs already sent by Smith [for "A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)]; sets out costs of either engraving or lithograping the autographs; changes made to ordering.

List [in Smith's hand] of 15 "original autographs" sent to Nichols, dated 26 February 1821.

[Note in Nichols' hand] on proofs and copies.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel5208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[26 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.156 & 20.112
Summary:

Regarding W. T. Brande's recent attack on the Astronomical Society. The Board of Longitude and its dealings with CB. Has met Henry Warburton recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7794

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henrik Johan Walbeck
Date:
[26 February 1821]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10a (C: RS:HS 20.113)
Summary:

Reports to HW, director of the observatory at Åbo, on observations, made by a variety of British astronomers, of the solar eclipse of 7 September 1820.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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