From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.32; Reel 9
Summary:
Observatory received Cape Results. Congratulates JH on completing project. Keeping busy with 'new Planets.' Gives credit to J. R. Hind for diligent searching [for Iris].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 August 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 296 & 296(ii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.317
Summary:
Remarks on JH's Southern astronomy volume [Cape Results].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Count [Frederik] Reventlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.14; Reel 9
Summary:
Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to recipients in Denmark.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
19 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Cosmo Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.98; Reel 9
Summary:
Gratitude for copy of JH's Cape Results received by HEIC library. Will forward copies to HEIC observatories in Madras and Bombay and to library of Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Phillipe Jarnac
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.84; Reel 9
Summary:
Will distribute copies [of JH's Cape Results] if JH will forward them to French embassy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Temple Chevallier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.33; Reel 9
Summary:
Thanks from curators of Durham Observatory for Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Count [Gerrit] Schimmelpenninck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.93; Reel 9
Summary:
Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Netherlands on Sunday, if received at embassy by tomorrow.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.34; Reel 9
Summary:
Congratulations for Cape Results. Excellent memorial to William Herschel. [Engravings of JH's] portrait were distributed to famous astronomers in northern Europe. Fragile nature precludes shipping it to Italy, India, and America. Believes J. R. Hind and George Bishop have right to discovery of new planet [Iris].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Smith Williams
Date:
20?] August [1847
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.23; Reel 9
Summary:
Lists ten recipients in England to whom JH sent circular announcing presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results] and portrait of JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[20? Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 14
Summary:
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Dollond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.35; Reel 9
Summary:
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isaac Bancroft Cooke
Date:
21 August 1847
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.138
Summary:
Has had to leave his work with the Sector due to ill health. Found [George] Child overworked at the Observatory. Comments on some observations. Pleased to hear that JH's health has improved. Mr. Watermeyer has died and C. F. H. von Ludwig remarried. Gives latest news of Kaffir War. Comments on the quarrel between G. B. Airy and James South.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 Aug? 1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
C. Klingemann
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.91; Reel 9
Summary:
Count Kielmansegg is absent. Sent copy of JH's Cape Results to king this week. Will distribute other copies to institutions [in Netherlands] if JH will forward these to Embassy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 August [1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.36; Reel 9
Summary:
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.7; Reel 9
Summary:
Two unsuccessful trips to Kensington to carry out JH's commission. Unable to meet 'Sir J.' Please write 'Private' on letters addressed to FB.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project