From:
Francis Cranmer Penrose
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1864-7
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.334
Summary:
Is sending JH a paper on standardization of measurement, using decimalization but not the meter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 18
Summary:
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.160 & 24.50
Summary:
Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
London Times (July 4, 1864), p. 11, col. 2
Summary:
Responds to objections published in the Times of 30 June to JH's 1864-6-18 letter to the Times regarding the introduction of the metric system in England; JH opposes this and goes on to explain the scientific basis of the British system.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1864-7]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207114 (C: RS:HS 24.65)
Summary:
Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Sending Book X.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
2 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 144: 472
Summary:
Encloses list of CD’s publications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Norman Macleod
Date:
July 2, 1864
Source of text:
Appendix A, pp. 41-2, Twelfth Report of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.321
Summary:
Studies sidereal chromatics. Asks if William Herschel recorded colors of Beta Cygni in a 1779 observation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.155
Summary:
Appreciates the difference between Robert Hooke's and JH's suggestions for a helioscopic telescope. Comments on these suggestions. Has recently constructed a reflecting prism. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Haig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.161
Summary:
Thanks for his letter and amusing pamphlet on atoms. Comments on their use of certain terms. Does not think their views differ radically. Thinks heat is a form of movement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
London Times (July 6, 1864), p. 7, col. 2
Summary:
Corrects typographical errors in JH's recent letters [1864-6-18 & 1864-7-1] to the Times.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.51
Summary:
Sends WS William Herschel's chromatic observations of Beta Cygni. Completing 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Works on translating Book IX of Iliad; fears he will not complete translation of Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 230–1
Summary:
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
Tuesday 64
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.322
Summary:
Questions dates in William Herschel's observations. Wishes JH luck on completing translation of Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716)
Summary:
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 [July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 35
Summary:
No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.
Intends special study of jellyfish.
Plans general work on natural history.
Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.
Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: B107–9
Summary:
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 176: 12
Summary:
Sends 2d ed. of his Physical geology [1864]; hopes that he will burn the 1st because of its errors.
ACR is convinced he is right about denudation of the Weald.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Summary:
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
