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Herschel8136

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Whitworth
Date:
[27 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.403 (C: 23:387)
Summary:

Quotes report of limitations in JW's new artillery shell for penetrating ironclad vessels. Recounts JH's [Apr. 1836] experiments at Cape of Good Hope to increase explosive power of gunpowder by adding [Luke] Howard's fulminating mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3741

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 275
Summary:

J. C. Wickham and Arthur Mellersh are in town and BJS wonders whether there is any chance CD might join them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7700

From:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.12; Reel 10
Summary:

More about the nebula catalog JH is preparing [see HA's 1862-3-12], and still wondering if there is some way HA's observations might be used.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1931

From:
Johann Christian Poggendorff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
29 Sept. 62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/133, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1930

From:
John Couch Adams
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sept. 29th 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/1, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-000542

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
29 September 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/66, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel1705

From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.191
Summary:

Further to publication of JH's work [see GS's 1862-8-28 & 1862-8-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1932

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Friday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1208; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2049, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3743

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 66
Summary:

HHJ’s paper ["On the distorted skulls found at Wroxeter (Salop)", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 12 (1862–3): 149–50].

He has been approached about becoming F.R.S., but would like to know how expensive it would be.

Requests a photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3742

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 6
Summary:

Acknowledges 3d edition of Origin.

Praise of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles [1862].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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