From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Admiralty?]
Date:
[1865-3?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.176c
Summary:
Objections by Board of Visitors to proposed new railway tunnel near Greenwich observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas MacKereth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (94)
Summary:
Doubts that JH put his approval on an article about shooting stars in the 'upper atmosphere' in The Intellectual Observer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1865
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Summary:
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 March [1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.125
Summary:
Requests JH sign R.S.L. certificate attesting to qualifications of H. E. L. Thuillier, AW's deputy in India. Hopes to see [JH's son] John when John returns from India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.268
Summary:
Is sending an unpublished pamphlet on dioptric lights and would be glad of his opinions as he is claiming public recognition.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.437
Summary:
Took JH's box of specimens and had a discussion with William Logan, A. C. Ramsay, and some young surveyors, one of whom had examined JH's neighborhood. Similar rhomboids to the Irish ones have been located in Wales. Hopes to have a discussion on this subject later. Can JH give, or refer him to data, the temperature of celestial space without the sun? Returns the drawings with many thanks.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[5 March 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.12 (C: RS:HS 11.438 & 24.98 & 24.99)
Summary:
Comments on why JH gave 239 degrees F as the temperature of space. Geological specimens may be given to the Geological Society or to the Jermyn Street Museum.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 99: 19–20
Summary:
Requests a postponement of payment on a note for £100.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 [Mar 1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 99: 22–3
Summary:
Thanks CD for his consideration in meeting his convenience respecting the payment of the £100.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[9 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.269 & 24.100
Summary:
Thanks for his letter regarding the dioptric lights. Gives his own views as to their importance.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Mackereth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.6
Summary:
Thanks for kind information regarding Christopher Hansteen. Will obtain a copy of the Admiralty Manual to read JH's paper on meteorology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Rudolph Heine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 134
Summary:
Admires Origin, but CD does not consider hereditary law of use and disuse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 13–14
Summary:
Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 63
Summary:
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eliza Susan Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.279
Summary:
Sends tributes to memory of her father [Josiah Quincy]. Discusses [James] Grahame and [George] Bond, who both have died. Also mentions Harvard Observatory and American Civil War.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.274
Summary:
Asks whether Greenwich Board of Visitors should meet to answer communication from Admiralty or if a response could be circulated among Visitors and sent if it meets with approval.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.390
Summary:
Regarding the comet seen at Melbourne (Australia), may be the 1843 comet discussed by JH in his Outlines Astr. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolph Heine
Date:
16 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992)
Summary:
Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project