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DCP-LETT-1066F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
[Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Maer purchase-money; London and Birmingham Railway Company shares.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14105

From:
[John] Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0329; Reel 1087
Summary:

Plans to send parcel to observatory at Cape of Good Hope; does JH have anything to include?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1067

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 74
Summary:

Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 81
Summary:

Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3541

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[1 March 1847]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 10a (C: RS:HS 22.304)
Summary:

Believes all actinometric measurements made are useless because they did not take into account the rate of expansion of the liquid, which is not constant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9705

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.54
Summary:

Regrets he was unable to see JH when in town last week. Outlines the scheme for a new club.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4523

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.305
Summary:

Plans to write John Russell in an effort to secure a pension for Thomas Maclear; asks for R.A.S. and WS's support. Asks WS to obtain some facts relevant to pension request.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2453

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847?]-3-3.
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.307
Summary:

Glad JH is writing the meteorology. Collecting materials for charts of ocean. Forwards some of this to JH for comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3422

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1847]
Source of text:
St. Andrews LB IV, 214-16 (C: RS:HS 7.309)
Summary:

Sympathizes with JH's feelings of regret over actinometer readings. Has procured a new thermometer and carried out experiments toward correction of actinometers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10772

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.125
Summary:

Is desirous of procuring impressions of prismatic spectra from all parts of the globe. These should show the chemical influence of the solar rays. The B.A.A.S. may be able to help or Colonel Edward Sabine. Can JH use his influence?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1066

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 4 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 73
Summary:

Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4144

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[4 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.306
Summary:

Asks WS if possible to enclose a note by Francis Beaufort to John Russell concerning request for pension for Thomas Maclear. Lays aside double star observations; continues work on orbit equation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1875

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[4 March 1847]
Source of text:
WT 67597.3
Summary:

In response to a request, JH is not willing to part with any letters from his father, William, but will send one of William Herschel's notes to his sister, Caroline.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9706

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.55
Summary:

Thanks for his note. Is writing to remove any misconceptions JH may have about the proposed new club. Michael Faraday will be joining on condition that there will be no dinners.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 10, 6 March 1847, pp. 157–8
Summary:

Corrects a misunderstanding of his description of salt deposits [in South America, pp. 74–5]. The salt referred to was from Rio Negro, and was coarsely crystallised and free of other saline substances found in sea-salt. CD believes its lesser value in curing meat is owing to the absence of muriates of lime and magnesia and suggests that it might be worth while to add them to the Rio Negro salt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001570

From:
Henry Thomas de la Beche
To:
H Isaacs
Date:
6 March 1847
Source of text:
MM/21/3, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4281

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.230
Summary:

W. S. Jacob sends Alpha Centauri observations to R.A.S.; uses JH's Cape Results as a guide to double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-938

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Summary:

A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.

Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.

Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[7 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.59)
Summary:

Has received copy of CL’s Principles [7th ed.].

Comments on reading Annales des sciences naturelles.

David Milne’s and Robert Chambers’ views on Glen Roy.

Mentions sales of South America.

Describes visit to his father at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6964

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.235
Summary:

Giving details of Thatcham Church and of the tablet, which is to be erected in memory of Francis Baily. Sculptor will be sending proof of the inscription.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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