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Herschel1616

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[7 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.101 (C: RS:HS 25.9.65)
Summary:

Selection procedures for the vacant astronomy post at Trivandrum [see RS's 1850-3-31].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC104

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
7 April 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.277-279, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to his Father, William Jackson Hooker, about plans for the coming year & proposed trip to Nepal. Jung Bahadur [JB], Prime Minister of Nepal, & Thoresby will travel to England & bring letters. JDH plans to leave Calcutta [Kolkata] for Dorjiling [Darjeeling] on 9 Apr with [Thomas]Thomson & travel by water to Sylhet the Khassya & Munnepore. Comments on the work of Falconer & Griffiths in the Calcutta Botanic garden. Describes affect on resources from selling the garden's timber cheaply. Describes work to replace turpentine paths with leading walks as at RBG Kew, to replant the wilderness, & to construct a Palmetum, Pandanetum, & Arboretum. They are restoring Wallich’s summer house in the Nepal Garden. Falconer is getting on well with orchideae. Thoresby & General JB will advise on proposed trip to Nepal. Lord Dalhousie, Colvile & others encourage the trip, & advise JDH to seek permission from the Woods & Forests Department. JDH asks WJH to consult Prof. Henslow, Mr Phillipps & Frances Henslow on subject. He would not be able to leave Nepal until 18 Nov 1851. He would leave Ceylon [Sri Lanka], go to Bombay [Mumbai] & catch a steamer in Jan. Asks WJH to speak to Sir H. Willock, Royle & Wallich regarding Thomson’s furlough. Reminds WJH to thank Cecil Beadon for opium things. JDH criticises Bellenden Ker. Reports the Larch & Rhododendrons are successful but many died in the heat. His map of Calcutta is at the Surveyor General's & will then be sent to WJH. JDH's collections will be sent in Jan. He is angry not to be on the Athenaeum committee & will join the Oriental instead. Reports safe arrival of copies of RHODODENDRONS OF THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA & his Journal.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-1320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
8 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228)
Summary:

Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-348

From:
Joseph Romilly
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 April 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FVM-50-04-10

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 April 1850
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 136-7, where it is misdated 16 April 1850
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel3237

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Parsons (Lord Rosse)?]
Date:
[10 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS MC.4.340
Summary:

Discusses changes in system of awarding R.S.L. Royal Medals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10896

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.245
Summary:

Found his letter and petition waiting for him on his return from East Kent, and had already presented it to the House of Commons. Outlines the events.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5574

From:
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.64
Summary:

Letter to accompany a gift of the first part of FB's popular psychology work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2279

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Martineau
Date:
11 April 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1090

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
12 April 1850
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel5650

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.140
Summary:

Is sending for his perusal his own observations on the zodiacal light for the first quarter of the year. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[13? Apr 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2280

From:
Harriet Martineau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 April 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2175

From:
Samuel Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.420
Summary:

Thanks JH for the volume of verse. Hopes the Herschels will visit if they come to London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1336

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[13 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD wants Lepadidae drawings [for Fossil Cirripedia] harder, with lines of growth more distinct; he wants no shading or similarity to lithography, which he thinks has harmed natural history. He realises that mutilated specimens may make accuracy difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
15 [Apr 1850]
Source of text:
J. Hancock (1886): 258–9
Summary:

Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2917

From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.407
Summary:

Asks JH to accept sunspot observations made over 14 years by the late [J. W.] Pastorff of Altona Observatory. Accompanying micrometrical measurements are worthless due to mounting of telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0398

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 16th, 1850
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/144; MS JT/1/HTYP/68-73a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0399

From:
James Craven
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3642-3546, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel9317

From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
17 April [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.71
Summary:

Would be pleased to receive JH's paper. His own house is still sad and silent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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