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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.17
Summary:

Thanks JH and Charles Babbage for their paper on the magnetic experiments. Asks to have 20 extra copies of the paper on the rocket experiments made when it is printed. Speaks of travel expenses. Mentions [T. F.] Colby's opinions regarding the Spitzbergen measurements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Sir] R[ichard] Phillips
Date:
[1826]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

Encloses an outline of JH's paper on iron [? 'On the Separation of Iron from Other Metals,' RSPT (1821), 293-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hans Christian Oersted
Date:
1826
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.228
Summary:

Thanks HO for JH's election to the Royal Academy of Copenhagen. Comments on some chemical and magnetical experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Salwey
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[1826]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/25/42, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Indebted to Smith's publications for the progress he has made in botany; offers to send 'Lichen' specimens not in "English botany" for Smith's opinion at later date, and now sends others, including: 'Parmelia conoplea', 'P. subiginosa', 'P. plumbra', 'P. ambigua', 'P. farrea'; observations. He and Mr Knight found 'Targionia hypophylla' last summer in Radnorshire, also found in Montgomeryshire.

Requests that Smith mark the specimens he has sent in a particular way. Remarks on habitats of 'Parmelia scrobiculata', 'P. aquila', and 'P. perforata'.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826 to 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.354
Summary:

Errors in equinoctial time calculated by John Pond. Suggests limiting decimal places in value of equinoctial time to reflect this uncertainty. Making error uniform will make it awkward to alter future almanacs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826 to 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.356
Summary:

Resolved puzzle about sidereal year, which needs better definition. Error between true and nominal positions prevents TY adopting 'equinoctial time' for chronology investigations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1826-1]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.324
Summary:

Comments on several experiments with spectra passing through glass films.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Jan 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 18
Summary:

A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins’: Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.257
Summary:

Asks JH about Dr. Balfour's account in Asiatic Researches about lunar effects on humans in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
6 Jan 1826
Source of text:
DAR 154: 28
Summary:

CD comments on lectures and lecturers at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
12 Jan 1826
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/6/98, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for turkey and specimens of 'Dianthus'. [Samuel Goodenough] ill. Fonthill Abbey and grounds purchased by [John] Benett [(1773-1852), his brother-in-law], the walks and drives to kept in good order. The abbey itself is in ruins, mentions the tower falling with a "tremendous crash" and the previous owner, [John] Farquhar [(1751-1826)], having a narrow escape. Acquired work on Brazilian ferns.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.258
Summary:

Comments on use of muriate of lime on plants. Also on existence of unexplained bands on film and on presence of red light beyond normal spectrum with light originating from certain sources.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
14 Jan 1826
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/10/7, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Offers to obtain any or all of the Hungarian plants described by [Franz Adam von] Waldstein and [Paul] Kitaibel in ["Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae"] from a Munich botanist, in exchange for British specimens.

[Note, possibly in Smith's hand] "of Laycock Abbey, Nephew of Ld Lansdown".

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 23
Summary:

Family news. Visits to the Owens at Woodhouse and the Parkers at Overton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.420
Summary:

Responds to receipt of sample impression of GP's memoir [see GP's 1825-12-3]. Comments on printing and paying arrangements, and to whom copies are to be sent. Comments on value of using an equatorial telescope as opposed to a meridian circle. [Some parts of the letter are illegible.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Forster
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
22 Jan 1826
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/22/18, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for turkey. Turns down offered potential post [of vice-president] in favour of [Robert] Brown. Heard from [Alexander] Macleay at Rio de Janeiro, assumes they have reached New South Wales by now. Hopes Smith's niece is bearing her misfortune well. Account of recent Linnean Society meeting. Their bank quiet but fears great distress across the country and expects to hear of banks failing.

[Letter incomplete: large portion of second folio cropped, unclear if any significant text missing]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
[24 January 1826]
Source of text:
WT.Ho A.1
Summary:

Is making arrangements to meet with TH in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1826]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.421
Summary:

Writes to correct error JH identified in GP's memoir [see GP's 1826-1-18]. Also asks to have two additional passages added to improve memoir. Intends to come to England next winter. Is including a list of corrections for the memoir [list is missing].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 January [1826?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.323
Summary:

Questions and comments regarding improvements in microscopy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1826]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A3–4
Summary:

Sends thanks to all for their letters.

News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.

CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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