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DCP-LETT-863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 33
Summary:

Returns notes on Confervae.

Has had information from Ehrenberg on organic forms in Atlantic dust.

Thanks for sketch of Galapagos flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-860

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for list of the Bahia Blanca fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4762

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.152 (C: RGO 6.699.232)
Summary:

Giving the plan of the Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel153

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1 May 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.699.234
Summary:

Seems clear that JH's 'falling star' [see JH's 1845-4-29] was the same one reported by a correspondent of GA's as having been seen in Nottingham; in a postscript JH is not so sure.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8590

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Peacock
Date:
[1845]-5
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib.
Summary:

Accepts GP's invitation to visit him at Ely Cathedral after the B.A.A.S. meeting at Cambridge. Asks advice on whether it would be proper for JH to read his address at the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14834

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845-5 or later]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20760
Summary:

Alerts WW, who was coming to visit the Herschels, that scarlet fever has arrived at JH's household. Comments onWW's writings about glacial theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9142

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845-5]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20764 (C: RS:HS 22.232)
Summary:

Invites Whewells to visit for a luncheon. Thanks WW for and comments on WW's publications on glaciers. Comments on Richard Jones.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000532

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2/14 May 1845
Source of text:
MM/10/56, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel6942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[2 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.234
Summary:

On the subsuming of one scientific society by another; comments favorably on the Memoirs of the Cambridge University Philosophical Society and asks AD to help fill in JH's missing items.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[4 May 1845]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Remarks on observation of new comet. Discord in R.A.S. follows Francis Baily's death. C. P. Smyth will leave Cape after being appointed Astronomer Royal to Scotland. Glass for Cape equatorial tested. JH has no success appealing for continuation of Colonial Survey. Southern constellation reform compromised.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-865

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 36–41
Summary:

Discusses the microscopic structure of rock samples from Chile and the Pampas. Describes organic remains found in the samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1761

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0631.2
Summary:

Describes testing William Simms's object glass and then gives details of the equatorial mounting GA used; offers to send carpenter to JH to construct mounting so JH can test object glass [diagram].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8311

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Draper
Date:
[7 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.117
Summary:

Critiques JD's paper on plant chemistry, contrasting 'luminous, colorific, calorific, & chemical or photographic' rays. Physics of light. [Letter continues two months later.] JH is done with photography. Has no desire to claim priorities in that field. Entrusts future to JD and others.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3626

From:
Robert H. Schomburgk
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.178
Summary:

Note sent with package from [J. F.] Encke of Berlin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel935

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1845]
Source of text:
JHS 6.11
Summary:

Comments about engaging a gardener, concerns about Peter Stewart, and waiting for council and committee meetings [of the R.S.L.?]. The Physical Committee meeting was deferred because of a transit of Mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4266

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8] May 1845
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.235
Summary:

Doubtful over WS's angle for Gamma Virginis; urges precision in measurement. Hopes to obtain moon map from R.A.S. during next visit to London. Unable to solve Aristarchus puzzle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4340

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.281
Summary:

Sends Gamma Virginis data. Will report Aurora Borealis observations to R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14728

From:
[Paul Sinnis?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.7; Reel 1083
Summary:

Announces change in meeting time of Council on 14 May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14590

From:
Charles Richard Weld
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0561; Reel 1093
Summary:

Announces 15 May meeting of Physics Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-866

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 50
Summary:

Has marked probable depths of the specimens on CD’s list of S. American shells. Asks for details which would provide more precise conclusions. [See South America, p. 226.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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