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Herschel3203

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS Sa.664
Summary:

Thanks Mrs. Sabine for translation of third volume of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Admires its author. Questions references in notes. Discusses meeting for Wintringham Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1630

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[15 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.116 (C: RS:HS 25.9.62)
Summary:

About an error in the annual report of the R.A.S.; would RS give some thought to a suitable candidate for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum, made vacant by the death of John Caldecott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001092

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
16 March 1850
Source of text:
MM/16/129, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel7009

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[16 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.85
Summary:

About JH's poor health; some problems in perspective. Having read a book on Egyptology, JH wanders off in flights of fanciful numerology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3162

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[16 March 1850]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/42 (ACCS: TxU:H/L-0270; Reel 1054)
Summary:

Thanks for clarifications on grant comments [see JH's 1850-3-14]. JH's work is plentiful and time is short, so wishes not to undertake public projects, like working on R.S.L. grant committee. Received RM's enclosure regarding Russian Academy. Has heard nothing about medal committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC100

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
18 March 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.268-270, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH on his way to Calcutta [Kolkata] to ask Lord Dalhousie & Jung Bahadur together for permission to travel in Nepaul [Nepal]. Resting with cousin of Brian [Houghton] Hodgson's. Discusses Lobb & his collecting: Lobb has a Ward's case full of young Argenteum. Discusses Sikkim incident, Lushington & the General in detail. JDH has arranged & parcelled vast collections, some hundred men's loads. [Hugh] Falconer [HF] has informed JDH of the dispatch of some of his collections by the ship 'Queen' under Captain McLeod. The shipment incl. all of the 1848 collection & part of the 1847 collection incl. the leaf bellows, guns, wood cups & vast chest of museum articles. JDH has sent all his drawings of c.300 species & sketches, incl.fungi. Has drawn around 500 species & plants in total. Also sends a few dried plants chiefly Compositae from 17 to 19 ,000 feet. Tchuka rhubarb is amongst the drawings. Hopes WJH will publish Rhododendron series consecutively in 3 folios fascicules. Has descriptions ready for Apr Southampton mail. The Hodgsonia plate WJH sent is magnificent. If he goes to Nepal JDH hopes to send the desired anther drawing. Discusses telescope, actinometer & compass. Knows nothing of Boott & has not received his Ward's cases. Thomson is collecting Rhododendron dalhousiae, R. argenteum, R. punctatum[?], Orchideae & sundries. At JDH's request HF planted a few seeds of nearly all the Rhododendrons in Ward's cases for RBG Kew. Lord Hardinge writes craving Rhododendron & alpine seeds but JDH has none. Courtenay has left Lord Dalhousie. Also mentions Grey, G.G. [George Gardner], [Archibald] Campbell & Welby Jackson[?]. Discusses the reasons for & against going to Nepal incl. credit of being the greatest Himalayan traveller if he goes in by Sikkim & out by Kumaon. Would not go to Bhotan [Bhutan] without 500 men in front & behind him. Is overloaded with Sikkim politics.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel2004

From:
Reginald Stuart Poole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.37
Summary:

Clarifies questions and includes his calculations of number of days since the five phenomena (see RP 1850-3-13). Will send some calculations to Astronomer Royal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE511

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
21 Mar 1850
Source of text:
104, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-1314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
21 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]

Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3200

From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.145
Summary:

Regrets missing JH's visit; discusses influences of atmosphere and solar position on Indian weather and difficulty it causes in obtaining meteorological laws.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4534

From:
Charles Henry Parry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.141
Summary:

Recommends F. E. Wilmot for election to R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7573

From:
Frédéric Petit
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1850]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.90; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a book [Cape Results?] made to the observatory at Toulouse. Comments favorably on the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel46

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.372.219
Summary:

Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7010

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.259
Summary:

Has never heard the polar axis approximation. JH's treatise on perspective must be very complete. John Taylor is his old publisher. Has got 64 more syllogisms symbolized.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mary Baldwin]
Date:
26 March [1850?]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0069; Reel 1054
Summary:

Thanks for birthday gift. Health of friends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10471

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.349
Summary:

Has just received a memoir from Bastiaan Bomme of Middelburg on the comet of 1264 and 1556. Sends the chief results. Comments on the findings and future appearances of the comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9344

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.98
Summary:

Sends a book on optics; if JH likes it, then tell others about it. Comments on some aspects of JH's Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel93

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 March 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.143.7
Summary:

Asks GA for help in identifying an astronomer for the observatory at Trivandrum, India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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