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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70. f. 23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[December 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 63
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.72
Summary:
Organizational matters regarding paper reports; comments on light from sun's corona [see JH's 1868-11-8].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 53
Summary:
Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.405a (C: RI 551-2)
Summary:
Continues experiments with carbonic acid and electric light [see JT's 1868-11-30], hoping to 'explode' idea that atmosphere's polarization is due to reflection by air particles.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 262
Summary:
Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E3–8
Summary:
Glacial climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sullivan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 December [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.249
Summary:
Thanks JH for sending plan for swinging cot to prevent seasickness [see ES's [1868]-11-28] and asks for more information.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
2 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 355
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 102–4
Summary:
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Sivewright
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.213
Summary:
Thanks JH for sending plan of swing to counteract seasickness. This will enable his long suffering friend Lady Sullivan to escape hay fever by going to sea but without thereby being beset by seasickness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[2 December 1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H720
Summary:
Further comments on solar light [see GS's 1868-12-1].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[2 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.405b (C: 24.242; C: RI 553-4)
Summary:
Thinks JT's work on polarization will lead to remarkable discovery. Discusses production of rainbow, parallels to Isaac Newton's explanation of black spot on a soap bubble, and problems in JT's undulatory theory explanation of reflection. In JT's experiments, what are nebulous particles produced by light in gas or vapor?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick Behrens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 122
Summary:
Requests autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Sterry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0274; Reel 1087
Summary:
Disappointed that Benjamin Disraeli's secretary, Charles Fremantle, was appointed to vacancy left at Mint by death of William H. Barton. Thanks for JH's efforts on CS's behalf.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 December [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.412 (C: RI 555)
Summary:
Continues experiments with carbonic acid and electric light [see JT's 1868-11-30], suggesting possible cause of blue cloud color and eventual whitening of light.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
4 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of book and manuscript.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 20
Summary:
Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Scotson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.182
Summary:
Asks JH where to find further information about a salt road and cliffs mentioned in JH's Physical Geography.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 356-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project