From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.85.161
Summary:
Replies to JH about the date of the transit of Mercury [see JH's 1864-1-[26]].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 4
Summary:
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.86
Summary:
Asks JH for information on the Beaufoy Clock owned by R.A.S., which is now missing. Requests JH to read R.A.S. Annual Report.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 176–9
Summary:
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
25 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/191, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.15
Summary:
Comments on the sun spots he has been observing, and some new phenomenon. Any chance of a visit from JH?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Alexander Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0226; Reel 1087
Summary:
Treasury Commissioners ask that surviving members of 1853 Standards Committee reexamine Parliamentary standards of length and measure preserved at office of Exchequer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 217
Summary:
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 25th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/481, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[26 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.26
Summary:
On the observation of sun spots.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26] January 1864
Source of text:
RGO 6.85.158
Summary:
Raises with GA the likelihood of an error in a date of a transit of Mercury in a paper by F. A. Winnecke.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 January 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.358.267
Summary:
Has been asked to reweigh the damaged Parliamentary standard pound weight; thinks that W. H. Miller would be a more suitable person to do the job.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/192, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/193, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.270
Summary:
Regarding Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle), the Treasury and the Commission on Weights and Measures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 218
Summary:
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 97
Summary:
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Reusch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 28, 1864
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 192-4; MS JT/1/R/16, Phil. Mag.; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. W. A. Argelander
Date:
[28 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.27
Summary:
Thanks for FA's star atlas series, one of which is a duplicate; reports apparent variation of a nebula.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Alexander Hamilton
Date:
[28 January 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0177; Reel 1054
Summary:
Received report by Lord Monteagle [Thomas Spring-Rice] on Standard Platinum Pound. Agrees to participate with members of 1853 Standards Committee in reexamining standards.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project