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Herschel7089

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.315
Summary:

JH keeps his astronomy right up to date. Regarding the significance of the word 'month' in legal phraseology. Gives two riddles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1551

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Felix Bergoin
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13c/1136-8; MS JT/2/9/524-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
1 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157)
Summary:

Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1552

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16/-, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1553

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 Sep 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4149; 5:3512, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1555

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Elizabeth Dawson Steuart
Date:
3rd Sep. 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/10/3338-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1554

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3rd, Sept. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/9/2890-2; HP 8:36-8, RI; IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

JHC1077

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
3?-9-1858
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.158, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel12634

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[6 September 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0054; Reel 1054
Summary:

Received another notice from General Reversionary & Trust Society regarding H. J. Hollier. JH asks again to be replaced as trustee for Mary Anne Hollier trust.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4512

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1858]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton
Summary:

Thanks JH for a copy of the new edition of Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9713

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.61
Summary:

Has been trying to obtain information on JH's query, which accounts for the delay in replying to his letter. Would like to show him his own experiments with electricity in a vacuum should he come to town.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 September 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0020; Reel 1054
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd wants R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. committees on magnetism to meet together at B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds. JH suggests inviting Edward Sabine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.

Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6261

From:
Alfred Barry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.22
Summary:

Would like JH's presence at the distribution of prizes at the Oxford Middle Class Examination at Town Hall. His support of the scheme, which he thinks the most important event in his memory, will be very welcome.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1814

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.9 (C: RGO 6.694.512)
Summary:

Is unhappy with one aspect of Edward Sabine's report [see ES's 1858-6-26], specifically the number of days each year when simultaneous observations will be made at all stations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1815

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.10
Summary:

Indicates GA's intention of being at the Leeds meeting [of the B.A.A.S.].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4891

From:
James Burningham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Sept 1858?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 186 (fragile)
Summary:

Reports his observations on an ants’ nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1556

From:
Intendant of Faucigny
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Septembre 1858.
Source of text:
p. 172, Glaciers of the Alps
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1557

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 Sep 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4087-90; 5:3514, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel6828

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.141
Summary:

Has just dispatched to Hawkhurst station a positive copy in glass of a photograph of the moon. Has many photographs but this is the best one. Has constructed a reflecting stereoscope. Angelo Secchi visited him but the weather was not suitable for observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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