From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 205
Summary:
Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 74
Summary:
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 197
Summary:
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.446
Summary:
Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.290
Summary:
Has sent the 1854 Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations. Illness of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (William Whewell). Undulating theory of stars in motion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Helen E. A. Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.150
Summary:
Expressing the thanks of her mother for signing the memorial.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 91: 89–90
Summary:
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
1866-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.149
Summary:
Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.477
Summary:
William Whewell slightly improved. Dr. [George] Humphry has been elected professor of Anatomy. Is indebted to JH because of the paper he sent to the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
2 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees
Summary:
The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.63
Summary:
Further comments on Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper, in response to JH's 1866-2-28.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.195
Summary:
Asks JH to recommend a reviewer for a popular book on astronomy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.478
Summary:
William Whewell seems to have permanent damage to his brain. Whewell has an article in MacMillan's Magazine regarding Auguste Comte's philosophy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
J. Fitzmaurice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.370
Summary:
A relation of JF has a handsome portrait of a William Herschel dressed in Jewish costume, to dispose of and wonders if JH would be interested in it. [Note by Herschel that this is Rabbi Herschel and no relation to the family.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315)
Summary:
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[George Smith]
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.24
Summary:
Is trying to assist in finding someone to review a book [The Heavens] by [Amédée] Guillemin.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399b (C: 24.144)
Summary:
Describes experiment involving viewing spectrum of a light flash as it advances and recedes. [Marked 'not sent on further consideration.']
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.479
Summary:
William Whewell's symptoms are worse, but his mind is still active.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
4 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 92: A38–9
Summary:
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[4 March 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H711 (draft RS:HS 17.64 & C: RS:HS 24.145)
Summary:
Comments further on Ernst Klinkerfüss's work [see JH's 1866-2-28]; on the behavior of light emitted by an electric spark.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project