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From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.232
Summary:

Will endeavor to obtain information on the Dock shares. Maria (HH's wife and JH's daughter) and infant are doing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
May 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, J. (1871). [Extracts of letters from John Wallace about horned toads and rattlesnakes]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London : 39 (1): 1-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Date:
2 May [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009764)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of FVH’s "Preliminary field report [of the U. S. Geological Survey] of Colorado and New Mexico" [Am. J. Sci. 49 (1870): 258–63] and Geological report [of the exploration] of the Yellowstone [and Missouri] River[s under the direction of Captain W. F. Reynolds (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.31
Summary:

Is grateful for his note. Would like to be certain of W. C. Wells's theory before he revises his opinion. His original paper was much larger. Gives some examples where he thinks Wells is in error.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[2 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.310
Summary:

Wants to compare Mr. Titterton's photographs of the spot groups to [Warren] de La Rue's. Has tried to determine if some localities regularly have spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
J. T. Raymond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.473
Summary:

Cannot afford fees he must pay to be ordained. Asks for financial assistance. Includes letters from a tutor and a professor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 175
Summary:

Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.233
Summary:

Sends report of Edward Sabine's 'conversaziones' of 12 Mar. and 23 Apr. Mrs. Birtwhistle wrote from Peking on 2 Feb.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0363; Reel 1087
Summary:

Forwards letter from G. A. Erman to JH and two papers by Erman. AM wants to visit JH to learn of prospects for Erman before AM leaves soon for zoological and magnetic observations in Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[5 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.311
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs WD sent for the dates requested in JH's 1870-4-23.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Warren Stoddard
Date:
5 May [1870]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 72755)
Summary:

Discusses flora of Sandwich Isles. "There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 60
Summary:

Expression in horses.

Crying in babies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adolf Bernard Meyer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 May 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 168-169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
Date:
[6 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0260; Reel 1054
Summary:

Thanks for sending G. A. Erman's two papers on terrestrial magnetism and letter to JH. Will forward these to G. G. Stokes with recommendation that B.A.A.S. continue funding for reduction work of H. J. R. Petersen. Awaits AM's visit to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 May [1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0465; Reel 1055
Summary:

Forwards letter from G. A. Erman of Berlin requesting that B.A.A.S. fund [H. J. R.] Petersen's study of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[6 May 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H728
Summary:

Writes to support grant request from Georg Erman of Berlin to allow Erman to do calculations on magnetism observations from circumnavigation of world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Eyre B. Powell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.185
Summary:

Thanks JH for mention of him in Outlines Astr. Sends detailed observations of Alpha Centauri system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.311
Summary:

Describes difficulties in producing glass pen and attaching it to pendulum to produce precise curves for aligning equatorial [telescope mount]. Sent artistic sample to JH's wife.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 174: 68
Summary:

Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
10 May 1870
Source of text:
No. 4948, vol. 1870 W, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project