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Herschel13526

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[T. P. Anderson]
Date:
[12 January 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0757.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Has no knowledge of transactions affecting trust fund for W. H. B. Hollier, other than what JH noted in previous letters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3302

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Matthew Arnold?]
Date:
[13 January 1866]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen1731/22
Summary:

Thanks for remarks on early portions of JH's Iliad translation. Hopes MA can go over 2800 particularly 'shaky' lines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6632

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[13 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.137
Summary:

Has sent his translation of Homer's Iliad to the publisher and is having a collection of the best portions sent to EC.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6308

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Samuel Birch
Date:
[13 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.69 & 24.136
Summary:

Is not convinced by his arguments that the moon's surface consists of snow and glaciers. Quotes examples relating to his experiences at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8662

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Editor of the Photographic News]
Date:
[14 January 1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Australia, Petherick, MS 760/18/127
Summary:

Dr. [T. L.] Phipson has proposed a solution to a cipher JH published in Photographic News, but JH did not receive the issue in which it appeared. Please send that issue to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9234

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[14 January 1866]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207123 (C: RS:HS 24.138)
Summary:

Macmillan is publishing JH's Iliad translation. Wishes to dedicate it to WW. [Matthew] Arnold wrote an encouraging letter on the sample translation sent him. Daughter Isabella appreciates your hospitality.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4345

From:
Angelo Secchi
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.416
Summary:

Rome College honors JH as one of the most important figures in science. AS praises the contributions of the Herschel family to science. Will send observations of Rome Observatory for 1865.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14075

From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0296.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

JH's solution is perfectly satisfactory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 280
Summary:

In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2265

From:
George Rümker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.509
Summary:

Sends observations of circumpolar nebulae originally published in the Astronomische Nachrichten. Hopes calculating their motion will eventually be possible. Wants JH's opinion on GR's work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4978

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 53–4
Summary:

Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.

Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6309

From:
Samuel Birch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.70
Summary:

Further regarding his own theories on the surface of the moon as revealed by photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8953

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[16 January 1866]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 10 (Jan. 19, 1866), 35
Summary:

Reveals the solution to a cipher given in JH's 1865-12-28 letter to PN.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
16 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?

Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11443

From:
John Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.356
Summary:

Has seen JH's nephew and will be pleased to sign his certificate. His instinct and reason are against dating Stonehenge as post-Roman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4625

From:
John Couch Adams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.9
Summary:

Asking JH to send a few encouraging lines to George Rümker, director of the Hamburg Observatory, on his memoir 'Circumpolar nebeln.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4977F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Samuelson
Date:
19 Jan [1866?]
Source of text:
Dreweatts Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (25 September 2014)
Summary:

CD is happy to sign photograph. He will only require one copy of the journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4090

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isaac Todhunter
Date:
[19 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.139
Summary:

Describes the problem of 'probability of three points on a plane forming an acute triangle.' Notes Augustus De Morgan has the same solution to the problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1187

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
19 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.154-155, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4980

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8)
Summary:

Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.

Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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