From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
16 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/172, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
unknown
Date:
17 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/173, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
R.S.L. Physical Committee
Date:
[17 February 1842]
Source of text:
RS MM 11.171 & 173
Summary:
Discusses how exceptional observations of meteorological and magnetical phenomena should be recorded and what significance should be attached to them. Cannot attend next meeting of committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
17 Feb [1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:
CD approves of HES’s "laws" [of nomenclature]. Regrets that [J. E.?] Gray does not approve of the scheme. CD has sent the paper to William Ogilby and suggests that HES send it to G. R. Waterhouse, of whom he has a high opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
19 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/174, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
[19 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:
CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[22 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 10
Summary:
Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].
Plans to visit Shrewsbury.
Describes behaviour of William Darwin.
Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
23 February 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/175, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[27 February 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.427.74
Summary:
Thanks GA for exercising GA's usual discretion in the matter of the funding of Charles Babbage's calculating machine [see GA's 1842-9-26].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project