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Herschel437

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.28a
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of payment [see JH's 1862-4-25]; asks for final approval of printing structure for the nebula catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7710

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.10; Reel 10
Summary:

Received £10 for cost of reducing JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Send description of catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2019

From:
John Eustace Prescott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.51
Summary:

Sending JH some crystals for examination. The quartz crystals show spirals. Invites JH to supply information concerning the crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6391

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.156
Summary:

Sending him R. J. Mann's letter. Mann could call to see him if convenient. News of her children.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7684

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.5.2; Reel 10
Summary:

Disappointed that EC could not visit Collingwood in February while in Tunbridge Wells to visit daughter, Mrs. Arthur Warre. Leaving for London to see Exhibition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3521

From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 24
Summary:

The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4453

From:
Sir Henry Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.325
Summary:

Thanks JH for favorable notice of his play. Sends sample of D. G. Rossetti's translation of Dante's Vita nuova.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7140

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.351
Summary:

Many thanks for the hexameters. Comments on these and the meter of English poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7566

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.83; Reel 9
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of [JH's Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1888

From:
Alfred Wills
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
30 April 1862
Source of text:
63902-874E-10-51, BL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3523

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 47: 175, DAR 160.1: 67–8
Summary:

Discusses insects of south temperate S. America and New Zealand, especially with respect to the distribution and origin of Chilean Carabi, and has sent for a German monograph to learn about the eleven species he has found.

He refers to Chilean poverty in butterflies; scanty New Zealand insect fauna.

An analysis of south temperate insects is desirable, but the small English collections make him afraid to undertake it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3522

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
30 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183)
Summary:

Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1889

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Richard Thomas Lewis
Date:
Thursday night
Source of text:
MM/9/20, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel438

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[30 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.30
Summary:

Provides final intended structure of the nebula catalogue page [see GA's 1862-4-26].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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