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Herschel7132

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.345
Summary:

Many thanks for his new projection of the sphere. J. L. Lagrange has two papers of 1779 on the subject. John Lee elected president at the R.A.S. He himself has resigned from the council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1771

From:
Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17 Marz 61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/24, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
17 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/4)
Summary:

Thanks GM for his excellent criticisms. His observations on the classification of minerals force him to "own that classification may be closely like that due to descent yet have no relation to it".

Asks whether GM has observed any cases of "bud-variations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3092

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 61
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1861): 223–8, 335–61].

Points out three areas of interest arising from the study of the species of Papilio: the derivation of the fauna, the variability of the species, and the permanence of local varieties.

Discusses J. S. Baly’s views on specific differences in reproductive organs [Catalogue of the Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3969

From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 March 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F2 J283
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 90
Summary:

Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.

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Faraday3968

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Fitton
Date:
18 March 1861
Source of text:
ULB MS L Adds 1886
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8159

From:
Robert Charles Winthrop
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.427
Summary:

Encloses pamphlet on atmospheric electricity by Joseph Henry and two pages about 'Carpet experiments' in New York by Joseph Lovering. U.S. going through 'sad political trial.' Does astronomy offer examples of severed systems or broken planets being re-united?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2556

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.465
Summary:

Discusses 'autograph of the sun' he sent earlier. Discusses measuring relative temperature of sun. Has an unpublished letter of Galileo to Cardinal Barberini regarding sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1772

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 20th 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/28, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
20 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Summary:

Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3971

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 March 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.388
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1402

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.45
Summary:

Note to accompany sending of palladium [see GS's 1861-3-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1773

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Gustav Magnus
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
pp. 61-3, Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3970

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
22 March 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.387
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4178

From:
Richard Lewis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1861]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Appeals for JH's support of the Life Boat Institution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1403

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[22 March 1861]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H698
Summary:

Thanks for the palladium [see GS's 1861-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
22 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether WBT will read over his MS sketch on poultry when done.

Wants rabbit specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14254

From:
Frederic W. Ragg
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1861 to 1865]-3-23
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0432; Reel 1093
Summary:

Claims to have demonstrated that light intensity increases as distance from light source increases. Applies this to inner planets, where sun should appear dimmer than on Earth. [JH annotation: 'Frivolous & Vexatious.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 4 (EH 88205988); Christie’s Images (Christie’s (dealers) 11 November 1998, lot 30)
Summary:

CD will publish on Primula [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Will DO ask W. H. Fitch to make woodcuts of "pin" and "non-pin" primroses [i.e., long-styled and short-styled forms]? Encloses a sketch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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