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Herschel2669

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[20 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.360 (C: RS:HS 23.217)
Summary:

Feeling better, but writing still painful. Writing articles on meteorology and geology for Encyclopaedia Britannica. May use information from her Physical Geography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1485

From:
John Barlow
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/22, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel5861

From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.330
Summary:

Sending him local paper so that he can see how the Oxford news has been received. Corporation of Southampton has come into a legacy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10616

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.495
Summary:

Has had a volume of essays of JH's and wonders if the first one [address to the subscribers of Windsor Public Library] has been published separately; if not, he would like to issue it in a cheap form.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1487

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
23rd Jan. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1131; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1930, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1486

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/167, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14316

From:
William Sharpey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0479; Reel 1093
Summary:

On 10 Dec., JH, George Peacock, and William Whewell were named to R.S.L. committee to cooperate with B.A.A.S. for purpose of continuing observations of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A50–1
Summary:

Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel145

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[25 January 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.471
Summary:

Thanks GA for a letter of introduction to friends in Rome [used by JH's daughter Margaret Louisa and her new husband, Reginald Dyke Marshall]; JH is willing to serve on a committee with GA and others if he does not have to go to London for meetings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
26 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.)
Summary:

Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11666

From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.31
Summary:

Has been thinking over the names of solicitors and believes he can recommend Messrs. Lewin of Southampton St. The senior partner is a brother of JM and JH should keep his papers when he concludes his business with his present solicitors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6620

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[26 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.220
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1488

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 28/58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1353, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel1806

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.1 (C: RGO 6.694.474)
Summary:

Wants someone else to take responsibility for committee on magnetic observations [see JH's 1858-1-25]; GA proposes Edward Sabine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3172

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Roderick Impey Murchison?]
Date:
[30 January 1858]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen 784/1/13
Summary:

Has been appointed, with William Whewell, to committee to help ensure continuance of observations on terrestrial magnetism. Needs names of those on B.A.A.S. committee with whom they will work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9194

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[30 January 1858]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20795 (C: RS:HS 23.218)
Summary:

Discusses B.A.A.S. business and asks for WW's views on some magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].

Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.

Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12300

From:
P. O'Callaghan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.156
Summary:

Sends a copy of [John?] Dalton's letter for which he is obliged. Expresses appreciation of his recent visit to Kent and Sussex.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12890

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[31 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0302; Reel 1054
Summary:

Send names of members of B.A.A.S. committee appointed to cooperate with R.S.L. committee for purpose of procuring continuance of observations of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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