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Herschel11974

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.336
Summary:

Has JH any comments on the first volume of JM's Logic, which the publisher wishes to prepare for a second edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4563

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[20 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.268
Summary:

Suggests trustees of British Museum make an offer for Mme. Witte's lunar model. Cape Results at press. Observed double comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE289

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Feb 1846
Source of text:
HS 16.353, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2662

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.353
Summary:

Delighted that her paper was read at Royal Society. Discusses discovery of new planet [Neptune], and the future. Asks about his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4452

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.287
Summary:

Double star orbits not ready; R.A.S. waiting for JH's new calculating method. Reads accounts of Biela's Comet. Describes Edinburgh Observatory in detail.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56c
Summary:

Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-956

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 151
Summary:

Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-955

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 55
Summary:

Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].

Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11975

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.337
Summary:

Thanks for his remarks, which will be attended to. Comments on the various alterations he will make in line with JH's criticisms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1262

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-3-1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-958

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Mar] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 63–8
Summary:

Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.

Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1295

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[2 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.71
Summary:

The committee dealing with applying to the government for aid should meet soon, and so JH wants some questions answered from one of the authors of Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3235

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[10 March 1846]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/31
Summary:

Has unsuccessfully tried to get in touch with [Hugh] Falconer and Falconer's publisher about obtaining further government aid for Falconer's research. Hopes RM, JH's fellow B.A.A.S. committee member, can help.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-960

From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 62–3
Summary:

Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.

"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.

Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12045

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.409
Summary:

Thanks for his congratulations. Gives a resume of the events leading up to the knighthood. Saw Hugh Falconer yesterday. Sister-in-law has just died.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56
Summary:

Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.

Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1296

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.72 & 73
Summary:

As HF is likely to be immediately ordered back to India, he is in no position to prepare himself to appear before the government seeking funds to publish Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Encloses a brief statement to the above effect to be read to the B.A.A.S. committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10451

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.329
Summary:

Has not been able to secure any angles of Gamma Virginis due to poor weather. Perplexed over the difference between J. H. Mädler and W. R. Dawes. George Bishop will be pleased to send any measures he may require.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9439

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.188
Summary:

Has a sufficient quantity of heavy glass at his disposal and offers some to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1959

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1846-[3-18 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

A collection of birthday greetings from JH, his wife, Margaret, and seven of their children, six of whom wrote their greetings in German. JH refers to Biela's Comet having thrown off a portion of itself, producing what JH calls a 'Double Comet.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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