From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:
Receives additions to JH's Telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
18 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918)
Summary:
Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.
"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.292
Summary:
Is sending the third volume of Ecliptic stars. Has arrived in Leamington for the winter and for his daughter's marriage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.253
Summary:
Discusses [Angelo] Secchi's letter. Can supply the Jesuits in Cuba with magnetic apparatus they need. Discusses Secchi's views on cause of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B7–8
Summary:
Will judge CD’s book [Origin] free from two superstitions: the dogma of the permanent species and the need of an act of intervention to bring change.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
18 November 1859
Source of text:
RGO 6/408, f.391
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:1129 (C: TCD 1493:1130, TCD 7762-72:1460)
Summary:
Again admires WH's quaternions but begs that WH make them more accessible. Suggests book with rules clearly stated and examples relating them to ordinary problems.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project