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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 117
Summary:

Hooker’s imprisonment.

Birth of Leonard Darwin.

Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.258
Summary:

Would he drop him a few lines on the orbit of the meteor for the R.A.S. Robert Potts of Trinity is to publish by subscription a translation of Robert Simson's Porisms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.347
Summary:

In looking through Lamont 1845-6 he found two observations of Neptune not previously recognized. Thanks for his memoir on the orbits of double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Returning with gratitude HT's Statesman, which stimulated much political and social reflection in JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sophie Beckedorff
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.7
Summary:

Family and political news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[5 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.231
Summary:

A. G. Melville will start Meteorological Observatory at Queen's College, Galway. CPS discusses JH article on plans for building an ice-making machine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[6 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

RF’s specimens have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. W. Payne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.148
Summary:

Discusses points of lunar and solar eclipse observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/526, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 February [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.438
Summary:

Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Royal Society
Date:
9 February 1850
Source of text:
RS MS RR 2.155
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
11 February 1850
Source of text:
MM/16/126, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[11 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.84
Summary:

Answers questions raised by AH in his 1850-1-19 [letter contains notes made by AH].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Scott Russell
Date:
12 February 1850
Source of text:
RSA MS John Scott Russell Collection, volume 3, f.196
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.

Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].

Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Algernon Pollock
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 February 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 271
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 February [1850]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.139
Summary:

Has received an interesting communication from the Rev. J. B. Reade of Stone, near Aylesbury, on the zodiacal light. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.336
Summary:

Glad to have seen Lady Herschel and children. Is recovering slowly. Thanks JH for interest in [Francis] Ronalds's work. Discusses paper ES has submitted for R.S.P.T.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project