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Herschel12340

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-5-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.197
Summary:

Has sent a note of his titular condition to the printer. Has been busy with a series of lectures on development.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-371

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Birds 144
Summary:

Dissected beak of Rhynchops shows no extensive innervation. But beak may nevertheless be a sensitive organ of touch as CD suggests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-519

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 183
Summary:

Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-608F

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1841?]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0456/1)
Summary:

CD and [Emma Darwin] are invited to "a holiday musical evening".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12330

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.187
Summary:

At the request of Mr. Clift, acknowledges JH's communication of the case of the Mare with the intestinal calculi. The specimens are very acceptable.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001618

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Bree
Date:
24 April 1846
Source of text:
MM/21/58, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel12331

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.188
Summary:

Introducing Benjamin Travers, who intends visiting the Cape of Good Hope. Would welcome advice from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12332

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.189
Summary:

Has received JH's request regarding the Admiralty Manual. Will be pleased to contribute a section on collecting specimens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12333

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.190
Summary:

The packet from the Admiralty was not the manuscript; that will follow speedily. Regrets any anxiety caused.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12334

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.191
Summary:

Will resume work on his 'Instructions' for the Admiralty Manual after the conclusions of his lectures. Will be able to forward it before the end of May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12335

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.192
Summary:

Has now completed his manuscript for the Admiralty Manual. Runs to 90 pages. To what Office shall he forward it?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12336

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.193
Summary:

Has been condensing his contribution to the Admiralty Manual, now reduced to forty pages; comments on this. The Westminster fever delayed the Admiralty manuscript.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12337

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.194
Summary:

Received the seven leaves of his manuscript from [John?] Murray yesterday. Comments on matters relating to the Admiralty Manual and RO's contribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12338

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 December 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.195
Summary:

Mr. Chadwick, who is now RO's guest, believes that one of JH's sons is at a preparatory school near Clapham. Would welcome JH's advice on a suitable school.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14177

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0403; Reel 1087
Summary:

Asks JH to review R.S.L.'s reply to Prince Albert regarding extension of B.A.A.S. magnetic and meteorological observations. RO enjoyed photo[micro]graphs of aquatic animalcules; these give clear insight into 'the spontaneous production of the species....'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14178

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0404; Reel 1087
Summary:

[Marked 'Private.'] Treasury replied unfavorably to request for extension of magnetic observations. C. E. Trevelyan suggests that joint letter from JH and presidents of R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. proposing only one observer (no observatory) at Peking would be acceptable, if estimated cost is included. No other locations will be approved. This concession was made possible by influence of Prince Albert.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel149

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.532
Summary:

The Treasury has, with great reluctance, agreed to establish one magnetic observatory at Peking, rather than the extensive plans proposed [see Edward Sabine's 1858-6-26].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1590

From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
February 18th, 1859
Source of text:
pp. 193-4, Glaciers of the Alps
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2526

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1859
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".

Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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