From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.42
Summary:
Hopes that JH will be able to visit Newcastle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.100
Summary:
Is working on the correction of calculation errors [see JH's 1863-5-31]; GA and his assistants will deal with the problem of proofreading.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
2 June [1863]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence)
Summary:
Can only conjecture that the problem occurs because the plant is not living in its natural conditions. Refers to what he said on Acropera [in Orchids]. Many plants under culture have sexual functions altered.
Asks PHG to look at bee Ophrys at Torquay to see if pollinia are ever removed. "It is my greatest puzzle."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.709.131
Summary:
A letter of introduction asking GA to admit Major Robertson and his sisters to the observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2?] June 1863
Source of text:
JHS 5.8a
Summary:
Saw J. B. N. Hennessey [who had just come from India] at a Greenwich visitation day, but did not have time to speak to him there. JH will invite him to Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Thomas Austen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 131, 151
Summary:
Does not think Dennen’s transaction was dishonest, but can see no satisfactory explanation for it; feels they must inform their fellow trustees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.709.132
Summary:
Responds to JH [see JH's 1863-6-2] about basic rules for admission to the observatory [for JH's future guidance]; GA discourages the visit of ladies 'who understand nothing and learn nothing.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.328
Summary:
Asks whether JT can reprint JH's letters on the British modular standard of length, which letters were published in the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Negretti & Zambra
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.147
Summary:
Have made several of JH's actinometers but have always experienced difficulty with the fluid, ammonia sulphate of copper. Can some other fluid be used? They are now making two actinometers for a foreign observatory and would like to make them as accurate as possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 93
Summary:
Thanks CD for influence used with Hooker to obtain a colonial position. Has offended J. H. Balfour by refusing the Darjeeling post and James McNab has become unfriendly, although his experiments do not detract from his garden work.
Will write Primula paper for Linnean Society as CD suggests.
His Darwinism is unpalatable at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Describes results with non-dimorphic Primula species. Such cases do not accord with CD’s view that characters are slowly acquired.
Thanks for criticism of his writing style.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richarda Airy
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
JHS 2,8
Summary:
Passes on recent reports of good news that daughter Caroline is improving, and that JH's wife, Margaret, survived the journey well. [Margaret went to Dublin to be with Caroline when she became very ill at the birth of her daughter Kathleen.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Philip Henry Gosse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 77
Summary:
Thanks CD for his full reply. Sends additional facts derived from further observation, and a possible solution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Taylor]
Date:
[4 June 1863]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:
Gives permission to reprint letters to Athenaeum on standard of length, in light of recent bill to metricize. Requests as many copies as possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.104
Summary:
Comments on GA's activity in correcting the calculation errors [see GA's 1863-6-2].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
George R Linney
Date:
5 June 1863
Source of text:
MM/21/12, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.106
Summary:
Correcting work is gradually drawing to a close [see JH's 1863-6-4].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George C. Hodgkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.415
Summary:
Finds there is not one of JH's actinometers at Kew; would be grateful if he could inform him who has been working with one.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
5 June [1863]
Source of text:
Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold at Christie‘s New York (dealers), 15 November 2011, lot 55
Summary:
PHG’s hypothesis [regarding the self-fertilising mechanism of Stanhopea] may prove quite true, but CD suggests that PHG should observe another spike to make sure. CD will observe his Stanhopea if it flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 155
Summary:
Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.329
Summary:
Will send as many copies as possible of JT's reprinting of JH's letters to the Athenaeum. Asks if JH has seen Thomas Rawson Birks's book on matter and ether.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project