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Herschel4537

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Richard Hodgson
Date:
[1 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.90
Summary:

Cites quotation from Cape Results proving that JH invented the diagonal solar eyepiece. Discusses RH's claim. Note to JH accompanies this letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8512

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.493
Summary:

Doubts the claim that Auguste Comte has significantly influenced English scientists. Asks whether JH believes Comte has influenced JH or others. Asks whether it is more difficult to calculate the moon's motion or the motion of a projectile through a resisting medium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7731

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.9; Reel 10
Summary:

As requested, sent six copies of Quarterly Journal of Science, No. II to JH and two to Russia and Switzerland. Publisher's policy prohibits sending reprints. Sends proof of JH's plate with suggested alterations to 'Willow leaves.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4419

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/2)
Summary:

Has received EH’s Die Radiolarien. Drawings admirably executed. Had no idea such low animals could develop such beautiful structures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7732

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.10; Reel 10
Summary:

Alterations to proofs of JH's plate [on sunspots].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10177

From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.64
Summary:

Regarding a musical phenomenon pointed out to him by F. A. Gore-Ouseley.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3401

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Frederick [Howlett
Date:
[6 March 1864]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Comments on observations of sun and sunspots, especially R. C. Carrington's book on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8174

From:
[Augusta] Wyndham-Quin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 March [1864?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.441
Summary:

Just received photograph of JH, because Mrs. Gordon forgot to forward it. [E. R. W. Wyndham-Quin] Lord Dunraven is jealous and wants one too. Enjoyed visit of Mr. [Juetty?] and Mrs. Gordon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4421

From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 24–5
Summary:

Acknowledges cancelled bond and thanks CD for declining to accept interest. Suggests 4 Mar 1865 as date for payment of the bill CD holds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6629

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[8 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.34
Summary:

Coincidences between observations of a meteor seen by EC and another account.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14295

From:
Charles Rodgers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0458; Reel 1093
Summary:

Demonstrates mathematically that sun's orbit cannot be elliptical.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14296

From:
Charles Rodgers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0459; Reel 1093
Summary:

Corrects error in sun's velocity that CR stated in earlier letter to JH today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4888

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.275
Summary:

Meeting of the Standards Commission on 16 March.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
9 Mar 1864
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/3)
Summary:

Thanks for paper ["Über die Entwicklungstheorie Darwins", Amtl. Ber. Versamml. Dtsch. Naturforsch. Aerzte 38 (1863): 17–30]. Delighted EH confirms his views. Many in England afraid to express views openly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4404

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 [Mar] 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 189–92
Summary:

Reception of Scott’s paper.

Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.

Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.

Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.

Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.

Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8513

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[9 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.494 (C: 24.35)
Summary:

In response to HS's query [1864-3-1] about the influence of Auguste Comte on English scientists, JH refers HS to JH's 1845 B.A.A.S. presidential address. States that calculating the motion of a projectile through a resisting medium is extremely difficult.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4423

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 101
Summary:

Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000922

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/197, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023)
Summary:

Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.

Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4426

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 223
Summary:

Request for plants.

CD’s continuing ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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