From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.193
Summary:
Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.268
Summary:
Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
1 March 1844
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.65: 31 (1-2)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Hugh Welch Diamond
Date:
1 March 1844
Source of text:
Photographic J., 16 September 1867, p.98
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.178
Summary:
Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.179
Summary:
More details of the benefit society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.180
Summary:
More details of the benefit society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.181
Summary:
More details of the benefit society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 March 1844
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Todd
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5th March 1844
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3882, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 7
Summary:
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Mayo
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.182
Summary:
Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.194
Summary:
Is working on tables A and B. Further regarding Charles Ansell's life tables.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 8–9
Summary:
Thanks for information on Malden Island. Comments on its plants and their relationship to the Galapagos flora. Discusses the flora of Oceania. Gives his opinion on the extent of the uniformity in species and forms amongst South Sea Islands. Large genera are more widely diffused and have a larger proportion of species with wide ranges.
Seeks advice on expense of preparing plates [for Flora Antarctica].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
9 March 1844
Source of text:
RGO 6/701, f.263-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 8
Summary:
Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.
Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.134 (C: RGO 6.92.120)
Summary:
Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 March 1844
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 March 1844
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project