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Herschel9815

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.150
Summary:

Has been very busy; otherwise he would have acknowledged his cheque before. Is glad to hear better news from India. Bad organization for the arming of the British troops in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13813

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0163; Reel 1087
Summary:

Decimal Association will not publish answers to questions by Lord Overstone [S. J. Loyd] until next session. Seeks consent of JH and other members to publish these sooner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4847

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.234
Summary:

Regarding errors in Francis Baily's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2144

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 218
Summary:

On classification and possibilities of a scientific morphology and zoology. CD’s "pedigree business" is important for physiology but has nothing to do with pure zoology any more than human pedigree has to do with the census. Zoological classification is a census of the animal world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4848

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.235 (C: RGO 6.377.437)
Summary:

Regarding orbits of comets. Lunar elements JH requires are given in P. A. Hansen's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 139)
Summary:

Thinks naturalists look for something further than Cuvier’s view of classification. Poses a theoretical problem on the classification of the races of man to prove that a genealogical system is best.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Buckman
Date:
4 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
Dorset County Museum (tipped into Origin 1st ed.)
Summary:

Asks JB to obtain information about pigeons.

Inquires where his article has been published ["On the discovery of Cnicus tuberosus at Avebury, Wilts.", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 20 (1857): 337–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001468

From:
William Sharpey
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
4 October 1857
Source of text:
MM/19/65, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4263

From:
James Stark
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.1
Summary:

Asks JH to look over JS's paper on correcting tables for barometric readings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9466

From:
R[obert] Few
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.212
Summary:

Has been unable to find the copy of the marriage settlement [for Margaret Louisa Herschel?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000879

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
8 October 1857
Source of text:
MM/14/144, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel7068

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[8 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.299 & 23.207
Summary:

Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4443

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Stark
Date:
[8 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.2 (C: RS:HS 23.208)
Summary:

Discusses JS's paper on barometric table corrections in relation to mercury readings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7069

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.300
Summary:

S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries and the work of the Commission on the Decimal Coinage. Is sure he read the algebraic adjectives in the Memoirs of the Analytical Society. May be related in some way. His wife is slowly recovering. Has JH read about the Devil's Elixir?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7070

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.301
Summary:

Has received a list of witnesses whose answers have been printed for Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7071

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.302
Summary:

Hopes the Indian mail has taken a weight off JH's mind. George Peacock is anxious that JH should be in their plot regarding the introduction of the decimal coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
14 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A119
Summary:

JSH’s Myosotis is beginning to sport. Asks whether some features are not odd.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4574

From:
James Stark
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.3
Summary:

Thanks JH for proofing his paper on barometric reading corrections.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1440

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday morning | 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/964; MS JT/1/HTYP/504, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

SOMERVILLE518

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
14 Oct 1857
Source of text:
118, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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