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From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.307
Summary:

Too busy to answer his last letter until now. His theorem on perspective is pretty and easy. Quotes one he uses. Has been busy finding the proof that every algebraic equation has a root. Has been organ tuning. Comments on the method of tuning using beats.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1858
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.349
Summary:

Wishes to introduce an American friend, Professor Stephen Alexander, to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.444
Summary:

Reports misplacement of letters of William Herschel after publication of extracts for The Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14:312
Summary:

Will ask Parisian doctors for information JH wanted and transmit it immediately. Hopes change of air will improve JH's health. Regrets JH is not closer to the capital so that the best doctors could help. Is writing Mr. Royer to ask him to write to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.313
Summary:

Expects that JH has received instructions sent through Mr. Royer. Informs JH that HR is sick and will visit some friends to recuperate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1858-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.153
Summary:

Sends him photograph of his godchild. Would like some lines from JH that he (the godchild) might keep.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 January 1858
Source of text:
MM/19/16, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1858
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.251
Summary:

Is AD interested in the Lowndean Professorship at Cambridge?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1858 to 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.29
Summary:

Thanks ES for receipt of information about magnetic curves and the work of [A. D.] Bache. JH is glad to hear ES is back to active work again, but JH says he is too ill to go to the B.A.A.S. meeting [in Aberdeen].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
JHS 4.7
Summary:

Describes lodgings taken in London; JH is working hard on his Physical Geography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
JHS 4.10
Summary:

JH spent most of the day before in a meeting, and with a man selling an engraving of scientists of 1806.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[1858]
Source of text:
RI
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on new edition of WG's Correlation of Physical Forces, particularly the subject of transformation of heat into motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1858?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.219-221, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.434
Summary:

Sending some examples of sensorial vision

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.435
Summary:

Sending a magazine containing a notice of JH's paper on sensorial vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 jan. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/63, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A19–20
Summary:

Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
4 January 1858
Source of text:
MM/19/17, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Jan 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A144–5
Summary:

Zebra-striped asses.

Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.

Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.

Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
8th Jan. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/635; MS JT/1/HTYP/507, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project