From:
Edward Loyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.347
Summary:
The Archbishop of Canterbury [C. T. Longley] will be lunching with EL on Tuesday; will JH join them?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77)
Summary:
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 18–19
Summary:
Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.
Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.
Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.
W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 April 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.83-84, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 225
Summary:
Wonders whether CD might contribute, if possible, an occasional letter to the Reader to help in their effort to establish the journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.392
Summary:
Sending the elements of 79, 81 and 82; is not certain if N. R. Pogson has sent the orbit for No. 80. It is reckoned in the same way as in the last edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
G[eorge] C. Renouard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.328
Summary:
Tells several anecdotes about people William Herschel knew. Discusses William Herschel and his work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 160
Summary:
Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
G[eorge] C. Renouard
Date:
[25 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.106
Summary:
Thanks GR for letter and anecdotes. Discusses Uranus and Jupiter and the long years the inhabitants of those planets, if there are any, must experience.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[25 April 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.13 (C: RS:HS 24.105)
Summary:
Comments on a table of U. J. J. Leverrier on the eccentricities of the earth's orbit.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[26 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.107
Summary:
Comments on the unevenness of generations; speculations about life on Uranus; expects to finish translation of the Iliad by the end of the year.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.230
Summary:
Thanks for his letter and also the enclosed one of B. H. Babbage. Regarding appointments to the proposed Mint at Melbourne. The difficulties involved.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
28 April 1865
Source of text:
MM/16/46, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 381
Summary:
Has heard from Hooker that CD is very ill and asking for suggestion of a doctor to consult. Recommends A. B. Garrod as specialist in gouty complaints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
G[eorge] C. Renouard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.329
Summary:
Thanks JH for amusing letter. Discusses William Herschel, the great reflector from Slough, his family, and his health.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
28 April 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/42, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.439
Summary:
Discussion on JH's geological specimens took place at the Geological Society on Wednesday. Gives some of the points raised at the meeting. Regarding the length of time that separates the extremes of eccentricity of the earth's orbit. Has raised the matter with G. B. Airy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Herschel from Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[30 April 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.56b
Summary:
HJ writes to AH to inform him that HJ has nominated AH for the vacancy left by Robert FitzRoy's death [see Henry Holland's 1865-5-1].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[30 April 1865]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 46126.402
Summary:
Criticizes the manuscript of Mr. Hickson [?] about meteorology, the diameter of the sun, and conditions at the North Pole. JH recommends against publishing the work without considerable editing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project