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Herschel7577

From:
Count [Gerrit] Schimmelpenninck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.94; Reel 9
Summary:

King of Netherlands received copy of JH's Cape Results and wishes to award gold medal to JH. Does JH accept?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
1 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013)
Summary:

Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7646

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Bancroft
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.12; Reel 9
Summary:

Asks help in forwarding copies of JH's Cape Results to U.S. List of 19 recipients and addresses. Asks GB's help in correcting errors before JH inscribes copies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3835

From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wants WH's quaternion mathematics to be challenged; also worries that quaternions will become merely 'a private and personal skill' instead of a method that can be taught.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7601

From:
Count Revel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.118; Reel 9
Summary:

In response to JH's letter to the late Count [Polton?], Revel will forward two copies of JH's Cape Results to Turin for distribution to academic institutions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7527

From:
John Bullar
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.44; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks MH for fulfilling promise. Hails JH's [Cape Results] as grand testimony to God's infinite power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1113

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
2 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.61)
Summary:

Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7585

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.102; Reel 9
Summary:

Will call for JH's [Cape Results] when in London. One of WP's assistants reported ring around Neptune last winter, but WP is skeptical. Instruments idle for nine months. WP too busy with [Irish famine] relief. Wrote to T. R. Robinson to find competent assistant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7528

From:
[C. M. Wilke]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 September [1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.45; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks JH for citing CW's 'endeavours in connexion with Mr. [Sherman?].'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7641

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.8; Reel 9
Summary:

Will soon marry [Frances] Selwyn, sister of Bishop of New Zealand. Favorable comments on [Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12179

From:
Georg Merz & Son
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.37
Summary:

Thanks for the address of the Admiralty; will send the instrument away in three weeks. Would JH send his observations to them via Williams Norgate (bookseller).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7438

From:
William Smith Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.8; Reel 9
Summary:

Received 112 epigraphs inscribed by JH for insertion into presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results], to be distributed as directed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1115

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
7 Sept 1847
Source of text:
DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Summary:

Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4629

From:
James Constantine Adamson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.13
Summary:

Relating to the appointment of Langham Dale to the staff of the South African College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10138

From:
James William Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.25
Summary:

Has been appointed Apothecary General. His own wife's health has not been good. Hopes all is well at Collingwood. What is he doing about William? Comments on the field open to chemistry students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7529

From:
Manuel John Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.46; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude on behalf of observatory trustees for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Distributed copies as directed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7890

From:
Élie François Wartmann
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.93
Summary:

Comments on electrical equipment, and then refers to a variety of experiments, including shocking chickens awake that have been given ether, and the study of other electrical effects on gases and various liquid substances. Wonders about the use of ether/electric shock on humans in surgery. Congratulates JH on his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7492

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.9; Reel 9
Summary:

[Form letter] Royal Academy of Science and Humanities acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7586

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.103; Reel 9
Summary:

Praises JH's Cape Results. Sends EC's paper read at Royal Irish Academy, three engravings of EC's 'Circle,' and EC's recent work dabbling 'in other than Astronomical affairs.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C3–C6
Summary:

Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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