From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1843-9]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.333 (C: RS:HS 25.13.12)
Summary:
Regarding custody of the Standards.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lindley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 50: A21–2
Summary:
Much interested in CD’s communication [about W. Kemp] and seeds sent; does not know the species; has sent seeds to Henslow.
Describes a monstrous plant found near Ely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[2 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A8–10
Summary:
Tells how W. Kemp found the seeds of Atriplex, which Lindley sent to JSH for identification.
Asks about monstrous plant mentioned by Lindley [see 690].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz & Son
Date:
[2 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.18
Summary:
Is inquiring, on behalf of the Admiralty, about ordering an equatorially mounted achromatic telescope for the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[4 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 67)
Summary:
Comments on his visit to N. Wales and the evidence of glaciation, of which he feels certain.
His marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] has revived after Louis Agassiz’s "ice work" knocked it on the head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.229
Summary:
Will find one friend at the R.S.L. Club dinner next Thursday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0027; Reel 1062
Summary:
Sends deeds already signed by J. J. Guest. JH should sign and return them. [Annotation by unknown hand: Mrs. Hollier's marriage and settlement.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 September [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.317
Summary:
Sends letter from [P. H. L. ] Boguslawski for JH's magnetic report. [John] Lefroy has found line of greatest intensity further south in Canada than ES expected.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John David Roberton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.367
Summary:
[J. C.] Ross has returned safely. Ross has a box for JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[8 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.167
Summary:
Offers condolences to Ann Smyth. WS's calculation of Gamma Virginis orbit surprises JH. Concerned about accurate methods of calculation. Remarks on excavation of Chelsea mammoth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.128 (C: RGO 6.340.353)
Summary:
Regarding the storage of the Standard weights and measures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[10 September 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.340.354
Summary:
Makes some suggestions about possible storage places for the United States' standards [see GA's 1843-9-9].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.245
Summary:
Has succeeded in increasing stations around Alps for meteorological observations. [G. B.] Airy is very obliging. Hopes one day to collect all meteorological observations in Sur le climat de la Belgique.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.103
Summary:
Enclosing specimens of his chromatype; comments on how these were produced and their characteristics. Is very busy with the Annual Exhibition of the Polytechnic Society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.258
Summary:
Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0629.6
Summary:
Describes some available glass discs, which might do for making lenses for a large refracting telescope [see GA's 1843-8-30].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.103
Summary:
Could he loan him the Russian observations. Recent readings of the barometer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.13.a; Reel 1058
Summary:
Enjoyed reading CH's account of some significant events from her life. Reports that James Clark Ross has returned safely from his South Pole expedition in which Ross discovered the true position of the South Magnetic Pole.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[13 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.259 (C: RS:HS 25.8.59)
Summary:
Regarding the cost of printing the catalogues, and matters pertaining to them. Can FB give him any general table of processions. Has started work on the letter press of his own book.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project