From:
Roderick Murchison
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 1 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/148, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Edward Sabine?]
Date:
[1864-6]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0579.2; Reel 1093
Summary:
Pendulum experiments are already approved at principal stations in Russian trigonometrical survey. Recent communication from J. H. Pratt to R.S.L. about pendulum observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.154
Summary:
Agrees with him that J. Müller's drawings do not show the entities around the sunspot clearly. Has nearly completed the apparatus for holding one of JH's sun prisms to his reflector. Hopes to do something with it soon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 7
Summary:
Inquires about CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 237
Summary:
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.85
Summary:
Concerned to hear that JH's health suffered as the result of the visit to JN. Happy that Warren de La Rue and [J.?] Müller are giving their attention to the objects on the sun. Comments on a peculiar sunspot. Appreciates the promise of the new edition of JH's Outlines Astr. Thanks for the cuneiform signature.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
2nd, June, 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3849, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[2 June 1864]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.5
Summary:
Writes to introduce JH's son William James and his new bride to the Lyell's. Both JH and his wife, Margaret, are suffering from illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 June 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.255.44
Summary:
About observing a grain-shaped spot on the sun; greetings to Friedrich Winnecke.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Wynne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 June 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/96; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1861, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 222–4
Summary:
JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".
New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sharpey
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
4 June 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/80, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[5 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.334
Summary:
Thanking him for his book [probably Passages in the Life of a Philosopher].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 8
Summary:
Cannot get any Stellaria graminea for CD. It is rare. Some, producing different kinds of flowers, once grew in Sandgate, Kent. Variations in flowers need to be re-examined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.269
Summary:
Became interested in astronomy as a result of reading the papers of William Herschel. FW read these at Hanover in the collection of Caroline Herschel. FW is now trying to arrange a visit to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.14
Summary:
Returned from Gloucestershire. Will visit Collingwood on Monday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 92
Summary:
Would like to meet CD.
He is writing a piece on the Schleswig-Holstein affair which will expose the British press.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A60–1
Summary:
Sends observations on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
7th June
Source of text:
1--671, Playfair Letters
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.32
Summary:
Sending a draft of a memorial for JH to sign.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project