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Herschel10755

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.107
Summary:

Encloses some specimens of photographs made by the use of chloride of gold and bichromate of potash. Comments on the process.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1588

From:
William James Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0803
Summary:

Describes activities at Charles Pritchard's school, including lessons in botany. Also reports that one fellow student is very ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6331

From:
[I. I.] Boye
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.93
Summary:

Would like a suitable entry for JH to be printed in their edition of the Archives Historiques.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE69

From:
David Brewster
To:
William Somerville
Date:
29 Feb 1844
Source of text:
MSB 11 / 357, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel6896

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.193
Summary:

Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8385

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.268
Summary:

Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6897

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.178
Summary:

Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6898

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.179
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6899

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.180
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6900

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.181
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-738

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 7
Summary:

Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6901

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.182
Summary:

Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6902

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.194
Summary:

Is working on tables A and B. Further regarding Charles Ansell's life tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-739

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 8–9
Summary:

Thanks for information on Malden Island. Comments on its plants and their relationship to the Galapagos flora. Discusses the flora of Oceania. Gives his opinion on the extent of the uniformity in species and forms amongst South Sea Islands. Large genera are more widely diffused and have a larger proportion of species with wide ranges.

Seeks advice on expense of preparing plates [for Flora Antarctica].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-740

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 8
Summary:

Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.

Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4744

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.134 (C: RGO 6.92.120)
Summary:

Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1242

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 March 1844
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel9662

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.12
Summary:

Sending a notice, which JH may be pleased to see, though he suspects the subject did not fall into able hands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-741

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
14 Mar 1844
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1844]
Source of text:
JHS 3.23
Summary:

Is spending time in court, and all the rooms are filled with tobacco smoke, which bothers JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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