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Herschel2021

From:
John Eustace Prescott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.53
Summary:

Thanks JH for his expressions of goodwill and friendship. Asks for introductions to JH's friends in Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000850

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
18 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/83, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel8951

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Proceedings, 5 (1866), 11-12
Summary:

Suggests a method employing compressed air for cooling the working area in a deep mine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4239

From:
Thomas Humphrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Announces a quarterly meeting of the Hawkhurst National School Board.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 325
Summary:

Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Summary:

AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.

Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.

Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11283

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.186
Summary:

Has seen the announcement of the marriage of one of JH's daughters [Maria Sophia] to Henry Hardcastle. Wishes them well, and would like to see them if they are likely to be in that area at all.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001490

From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
20 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/90, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001491

From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
Alfred Smee
Date:
20 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/91, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4920

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046)
Summary:

Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4899

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.287
Summary:

Printed address of the Astronomer Royal to individual members of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 and 28 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 277
Summary:

Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.

Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.

On Wallace; anthropology.

H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].

W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9227

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 October 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207118 (C: RS:HS 24.125)
Summary:

Asks WW to welcome Mr. Prescott, a minister taking a position in Cambridge. Comments on a new Iliad translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4923

From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 16
Summary:

Thanks for autograph [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865) no. 262] and corrections of HK’s biographical sketch of CD [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865): 82–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4922

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 173: 30
Summary:

Returns a paper which he has looked over.

Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4643

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043)
Summary:

Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
25–6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146)
Summary:

Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.

News of family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4903

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Oct 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 204 (fragile)
Summary:

His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.

[Isolated fragments only.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6184

From:
Joseph Baxendell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.309
Summary:

Thanks for the paper which will be communicated to the next meeting of the Lit and Phil Soc. Regarding Mr. Greave's paper on the ventilation of mines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4925

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 43
Summary:

Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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