From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.249
Summary:
Offering sympathy on the death of JH's daughter [Margaret Louisa].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Jopling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.425
Summary:
Encloses another design for permanent lines on the faces of a pyramid to observe and record astronomical facts; comments on his methods.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Andrew Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.111
Summary:
Has been urged to apply for the Headmastership of Sir Joseph Williamson's School at Rochester and would like JH's opinion on his suitability. Encloses a note from Edward Cooper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 173–4
Summary:
Physiological changes in Shetland ponies and seagulls resulting from change in diet.
Reports on the discovery of eyeless beetles in cellar [i.e., not caves]. How did they get there, and whence?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ball
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.13
Summary:
Is sorry he wrote his last letter on the day of the sad event. Hopes JH will use the table of heights in the Alpine volume. Comments on the accuracy of various heights given by authorities.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
26th Jan. 1861
Source of text:
T/1876-39, Science Museum, London
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.216
Summary:
Offers consolation to JH on the death of his daughter Margaret Louisa.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
28 Jan 1861
Source of text:
HS 16.364, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.364
Summary:
Condolences on death of JH's daughter [Margaret] Louisa.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 29. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/21; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1316, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.391
Summary:
Thinks there is nothing JH's son should be afraid of if the Directors will appoint him. Sorry to hear JH has been suffering. Lady Lubbock has been to St. Leonards.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.254 (C: RS:HS 23.324)
Summary:
Has been too ill to write terrestrial magnetism paper for Edinburgh Review. Suggests other people to write it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 29/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/633-8, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[30 January 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 36
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.255
Summary:
Like JH, Smyths have been suffering bronchial problems. Urges JH not to give up [see JH's 1861-1-29] plan of JH writing a review on terrestrial magnetisim.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.392
Summary:
Mr. Higham has had to retire due to ill health. If appointed JH's son will have nothing to do with the duties of actuary. Hopes to send something about the moon soon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
30 January 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.161-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.450
Summary:
Regrets that JH's ill health has been the cause of his abandonment of his paper on the weather. Editor of the Quarterly Review will be pleased to receive it should JH resume his writing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
31 January 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M2, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Daily News
Date:
1861-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.461
Summary:
Regarding the question of forged documents by the Indigo planters of Bengal and the advantages they hold over the Ryotts, who cannot read or write.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Contributor
- Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project13
- Brigitte Stenhouse9
- Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project97
- Darwin Correspondence Project378
- Darwin Family Letters27
- Faraday Project183
- Henslow Correspondence Project4
- Hooker Project15
- John Herschel Project231
- Royal Society12
- Ruth Cramond1
- Tyndall Project92