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Herschel4726

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.116 (C: RGO 6.462.39)
Summary:

Answer to one of JH's on 9 January [apparently on equatorial telescopes].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[14 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for account.

Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-652

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London
Date:
[14 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11036

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Jones
Date:
[17 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.145
Summary:

Looks forward to the possibility of a visit from RJ.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4727

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.117 (C: RGO 6.368.659)
Summary:

Regarding William Cubitt (Engineer of the Dover Railway) and the proposed blasting down of the cliffs between Dover and Folkestone.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8295

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.100
Summary:

WB's packet arrived safely today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel67

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.660
Summary:

Intends to accept offer [see GA's 1843-1-18]; JH questions the correctness of P. S. Laplace's theory of capillary action.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9567

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[19 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.304 & 22.146
Summary:

Protesting about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to publish Thomas Brisbane's magnetic observations; hopes it will be reconsidered. Thinks JF's theory on glaciers has good points, but comments on some of its shortcomings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6676

From:
H. Cubitt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.380
Summary:

Is planning to blow down part of the cliffs near Dover for the railway and gives details of how he plans to do it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8296

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[20 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.101
Summary:

Ask Edward Sabine for authority to insert additional notes [on barometric observations] into report already at printer's. Does not advise publishing observations. Asked Howard Elphinstone to send observations to WB.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
21 Jan [1843]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Discusses his account.

Sends addresses [for subscribers to Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[22 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.

Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4728

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.118
Summary:

Further news of his proposed visit to Dover to see the blasting of the cliffs?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4729

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.119 (C: RGO 6.340.345)
Summary:

Regarding projected committee for the construction of new Standards for weights and measures. Any observations or further instructions for captain visiting the China coast?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6677

From:
H. Cubitt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.381
Summary:

Details of arrangements for reaching Dover in preparation for the blasting of the cliffs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9568

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.305
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter and photographs. Will send him his paper on glaciers, which he is pleased to see interests him. Thomas Brisbane must be in error about the refusal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to print his magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12327

From:
William O'Shaughnessy Brooke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.184
Summary:

Has now heard that the explosion at Dover is to take place on Thursday. Hopes to see JH there. If not, will call on him at Hawkhurst.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13873

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1843-6 or 1856-69]
Source of text:
Edward Ford (private collection)
Summary:

Obliged for memoir with illustrations on most interesting point [unspecified] to occur in many years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2278

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.149
Summary:

Sends letter of [Johann] Lamont, whose suggestions have been adopted by the Physical Committee. Discusses size of instruments, particularly needles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-660F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
25 Jan [1843]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF/ZOO/205/4/144)
Summary:

Requests that Charles Lyell be permitted to borrow the coral reef specimens he presented to the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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