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Herschel10979

From:
William Stanley Jevons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.324
Summary:

Intends to apply for a professorship at Owens College and would like to use JH's letter as a testimonial. Would also like to send a copy of this letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5747

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.234
Summary:

Has answered Smith's request by letter this evening. Thanks for the specimen of the meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11168

From:
Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.58
Summary:

Is grateful for his friendly letter. Gives a fuller explanation of his own theories on light. Would be glad if he would show this letter to Professor G. G. Stokes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5029

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 153
Summary:

Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.

Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316)
Summary:

Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8793

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester (C: RS:HS 24.148)
Summary:

Agrees to WJ's request to make use of an earlier letter of JH's [see WJ's 1866-3-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2580

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.484
Summary:

William Whewell will be buried in Trinity College Chapel. The thought of speaking about Whewell depresses WS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-66-03-10

From:
David Coller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1866
Source of text:
W70/5147, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-03-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
10 March 1866
Source of text:
O66/2576, unit 180, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5031

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1866
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9
Summary:

Comments on cool-period MS. Still believes geographical changes principal cause of former changes of climate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5033

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 154
Summary:

Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10358

From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.240
Summary:

Has not had time to finish the George Boole paper, but the biographical part is in print. Will send him the complete article when it is finished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5034

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1866
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Summary:

On the "bullae" as constant, regular generic characters in Hymenoptera. Disagrees with Louis Jurine ["Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères", Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 24 (1820): 177–214].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10396

From:
Wilfred Heeley
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
13 March [1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.275
Summary:

Is Secretary of a committee for advising on Indian weights and measures and would welcome any reports and pamphlets by WH's father [note on verso stating the letter has been passed to his father].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-66-03-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
14 March 1866
Source of text:
N66/2692, unit 180, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11812

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.172
Summary:

[Samuel] Parlby papers are in the hands of [John] Steuart, who will hand them over to the new Attorney General when he arrives. Several epidemics have visited the Observatory and William Mann is now convalescing in Natal. [James] Adamson has caused unpleasantness with the reduction of the meteorological journals. Railroad building has stopped at the Cape. Difficulties with the electric telegraph.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1146

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
16 March 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.90-91, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5035

From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 271
Summary:

Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5036

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 155
Summary:

Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8852

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[17 March 1866]
Source of text:
Univ. of London Library (CC: RS:HS 16.489 & C: 23.298)
Summary:

Will subscribe to HS's work as requested [see HS's 1860-3-5], but dissents 'from very large portions' of HS's views. Especially objects to HS's adoption of the 'Shibboleth of the Hegel & Schelling School of German Philosophy—"the Absolute."' [This letter misdated; correct date: 1860-3-17.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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