From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.167
Summary:
Has been preparing famine food, such as hay biscuits.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 78
Summary:
Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
[17 February 1847]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:
Informs JE what would be the cost for transcription of the G. W. Leibniz letter requested by JE [see JH's [1846]-11-5]. Mentions controversy over discovery of Neptune.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[20 February 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.203 (ACCS: RS:HS 25.7.4; C: RS:HS 22.303; RS MM 11.188)
Summary:
Has discovered a flaw in the theory of actinometer observations. Realizes that JH's actinometer observations at the Cape may be useless and that observations made at Government and East India observatories should be suspended.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fitton
Date:
[20 February 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.7.5
Summary:
Expresses opinions about the medal fiasco at the R.A.S., and in so doing, also defends G. B. Airy. JH is very concerned about the mean attacks being made on various people over the Neptune discovery controversy. Makes especially strong statements in a PS written on Feb. 21.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1847
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1020)
Summary:
Concerning the purchase of shares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.1; Reel 1093
Summary:
Apologizes to JH for worrying him about the printing of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.2; Reel 1093
Summary:
Discusses the cost of printing and publishing J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française and of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere [for which JH wrote the Preface]. Hopes to have both books published by the end of April.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.204
Summary:
Copies of 1847-2-20 letter will be sent to observatories utilizing actinometers. Earlier series will be replaced with accurate figures. Suggests method to measure temperature in actinometers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.97
Summary:
Comments relating to G. W. Leibniz correspondence [see JE's 1846-9-22]; comments on naming the new planet Neptune.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.53
Summary:
W. R. Grove and JG would like an opportunity of discussion with JH on a scientific matter. Will visit him if necessary.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.3; Reel 1093
Summary:
Nothing more has been done with J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française...; WS hopes to spend more time on it henceforth. WS also has been too busy to oversee the progress on the bust of Francis Baily.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco Javier Muñiz
Date:
26 Feb 1847
Source of text:
Nature 99 (1917): 305–6
Summary:
If FJM wishes to sell the fossils he has discovered, CD suggests he appoint some agent to dispose of them.
Is surprised at the account of the earthquake in the pampas.
Offers to send his South America.
Greatly admires FJM’s zeal
and would welcome any information on the domestic animals of La Plata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 265
Summary:
Asks to call on RC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 80
Summary:
Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
Author
Addressee
- Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg1
- Airy, George Biddell23
- Allen, John1
- Babbage, Charles3
- Baillie, Joanna1
- Baily, Francis1
- Bancroft, George4
- Baxter, William1
- Beaufort, Francis2
- Bentham, George6
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph2
- Birt, William Radcliffe2
- Bishop, George1
- Blomefield, Leonard1
- Bunbury, Charles James Fox1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Chambers, Robert2
- Clapham, Abraham1
- Collins, Thomas1
- Compton, Spencer J. A.1
- Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne1
- Cooper, Edward Joshua2
- Darwin, C. R.6
- Darwin, Emma1
- De Morgan, Augustus5
- De la Beche, H. T.1
- Denny, Henry1
- Dieffenbach, Ernst1
- Eden, George2
- Encke, Johann Franz1
- Faraday, Michael1
- Fitton, William Henry1
- Forbes, James David2
- Forbes, John S.1
- Forshall, Josiah1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gassiot, John P.1
- Gray, J. E.2
- Greig, (Woronzow?)1
- Grey, George1
- Griesbach, F. A. Herschel1
- Griesbach, W. Herschel1
- Grove, William Robert3
- Hamilton, William Rowan3
- Hartnup, John1
- Harvey, W. H.1
- Hearn, George W.1
- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia2
- Herschel, John461
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie11
- Higgins, John3
- Hind, John R.1
- Hooker, J. D.35
- Hooker, W. J.5
- Horner, Leonard1
- Horner, M. E.1
- Hutton, Robert1
- Hügel, Baron [Karl Alexander von]1
- Isaacs, H1
- Jarnac, Phillipe1
- Jenyns, Leonard1
- Jukes, J. B.1
- Kane, Robert John3
- Knipping, Anne Elise1
- Kolbe, A. W. H.1
- Lassell, William1
- Leonhard, Gustav von1
- Linden, Baron de1
- Lubbock, John William6
- Lyell, Charles8
- Lyell, M. E.1
- Maclear, Thomas1
- Merz, Georg1
- Milne Home, David2
- Milne-Edwards, Henri1
- Muirhead, James P.1
- Murchison, James P.1
- Muñiz, F. J.1
- Nichols, Charles1
- Owen, Richard5
- Palgrave (nee Turner), Lady Elizabeth1
- Patterson, Robert1
- Peacock, George1
- Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland), Algernon12
- Quetelet, Adolphe1
- R.A.S., the1
- Richardson, John1
- Ross, J. C.2
- Ross, James Clark1
- Royle, J. F.4
- Rundell, W. W.1
- Russell, John1
- Sabine, Edward3
- Salt, Thomas1
- Schumacher, H. C.1
- Sedgwick, Adam4
- Sharpe, Daniel2
- Sheepshanks, Richard17
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi1
- Smyth, William Henry10
- Somerville, Mary2
- Stokes, J. L.1
- Stratford, William Samuel1
- Studer, Bernhard4
- Sykes, William Henry1
- Talbot, William Henry Fox1
- The Scotsman1
- Unidentified1
- Vulliamy, [Benjamin Lewis]1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III4
- Weld, Charles Richard1
- Whewell, William3
- Whitby, M. A. T.2
- Williams, William Smith1
- [Bewley, Alexander V.]1
- [Birt, William Radcliffe]2
- [De Morgan?, Augustus]1
- [Forshall?, Josiah]1
- [Hunt, Robert]1
- [R.S.L. Council]1
- [Richardson, John]1
- [Richardson], John1
- [Sheepshanks, Richard]1
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