From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[23 February 1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H705
Summary:
Further about nebulae catalogue [see JH's 1864-2-5].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Thomas Anderson]
Date:
24 February 1864
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Thomas Anderson, box 2, letters from various originators 1859-68, vol. 1, no. 154
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
24 February 1864
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Perthes Verlag Gotha, Germany
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Jean Müller
Date:
24 February 1864
Source of text:
Bibliothèque, Conservatoire et Jardin botanique de la ville de Genève, Geneva
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 February 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 179
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 222
Summary:
Asks for a Smilax to study movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.7; Reel 10
Summary:
JH's request for three proofs contradicts printer's policy of issuing only one of each. Assurance that JH's manuscript will be examined carefully for errors.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.389
Summary:
JH's letter went to the old address, which accounts for the delay. Regarding his query, gives date of the conjunction of the planets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.152
Summary:
Has sent a collection of his own communications for JH via the Foreign Secretary of the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward James Stone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.82
Summary:
Intrigued by discovery of 'willow leav[e]s' on sun's photosphere, bought new telescope eyepiece. Reports observations on 'leav[e]s' and overall 'rice-like' texture of sun under telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Eaton
Date:
25 February 1864
Source of text:
MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 2/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 February 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80)
Summary:
Has not worked for six months due to illness.
Has been looking at climbing plants.
Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.8; Reel 10
Summary:
Corrections on JH's manuscript on sunspots. Please keep alterations to minimum. Will send complimentary copies of Quarterly Journal of Science. Please write brief note on 'vaporous ring' and its bearing upon sunspots.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.159
Summary:
Photographic news. Has heard about the JHs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
26 February 1864
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1W/28.91
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.115
Summary:
Would like account of the telescope of Warren de La Rue which JH has. E. J. Stone of the Royal Observatory has seen objects on the sun's surface like grains of rice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.199
Summary:
Thanks for his letter. Has no copy of JH's Cape Observations so cannot refer to them. Comments on articles on telescopes by JH; they do not lead him to adopt the arrangement he adverted to 10 years ago. Regarding priorities in discoveries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Hodgson
Date:
[27 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.154 (C: RS:HS 24.32)
Summary:
Did not insinuate that RH plagiarized JH's idea of 'diagonal reflector,' but feels justified in defending JH's claim to being first to apply it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
M. & N. Hanhart, Lithographers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/3.99; Reel 10
Summary:
Sends proofs and originals of plates [for JH's catalogue of nebulae], as directed by Mr. Churchill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project