From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.15
Summary:
Acknowledgment of receipt of more material from JH [see GA's 1862-4-3].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 148
Summary:
On Vanilla.
Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes
and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".
The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.381
Summary:
Was interested to receive the information regarding another missing nebula; would like to mention it at the R.A.S. The late George Bishop's observatory is now being rebuilt at Twickenham. Will return N. R. Pogson's table of Julian dates tomorrow. Has adopted the first of JH's suggestions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr 1862
Source of text:
146, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 116–117)
Summary:
JM is a bold man to print 1500 copies [of Orchids].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project