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DCP-LETT-1260G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gabriel-Auguste (Auguste) Daubrée
Date:
[1849?]
Source of text:
Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 2423 A ff. 69–70)
Summary:

Had hoped to sent specimens by carrier that day; intends to sent them next Thursday.

Thanks for German scientific newspaper: two articles interested him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1849?]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1260F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
[1849]
Source of text:
Jeff Weber, Rare Books (dealer) (January 2013)
Summary:

Will return books, and asks for more.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5875

From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1849
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.3
Summary:

Presenting A. T. D'Abbadie, who has made a voyage to Brazil. Remarks on JH's calorimeter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE505

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
1 Jan 1849
Source of text:
93, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel14806

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
[1849]
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office Misc F24F1.3
Summary:

JH's article on 'Meteorology' [for the Admiralty Manual] is finished; JH will make some comments on aneroid barometers in the preface.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC70

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
--[1849]
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.180, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH discusses Bhotea [Bhotia] tribes of the Himalaya who inhabit the Cachan, above the villages of the Limbos & Ghorkas [Gorkhas] in Nepal, & Haioos[?], Murims[?] & Lepchas in Sikkim. He translates some Bhotia words. The Bhotias carry on the salt trade with Tibet. The Bhotias or Bhootan people of Bhotea as opposed to the cis-nivean regions are a different tribe, their own name for Bhootan [Bhutan] is 'Lhop' or 'Country of the Dhurmah Rajah'. Hooker likes the Bhotias but the Bhutan people have a very bad reputation. All the above as well as Tibetans & Chinese in the region & people of Little Bucharia & Soongaria are Buddhists who practice Lamaism. Contains a hand drawn map of the Sikkim-Darjeeling area.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC71

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
--[1849]
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.181, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Hand-drawn map showing the areas of Nepal & Sikkim between Darjeeling & the Tibetan border. Map includes features such as the Wallanchoon Pass & Kanglachem Pass, & rivers including the Tambur, Yangma, Teesta, Rungeet & Kulhait. Places shown include Pemiongchi & Lelyp.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel10465

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.343
Summary:

Sends a copy of the Astronomical Remembrancer to which he referred. The garnet star is BAC 7582. Encloses a list of variable stars and comments on the proximity of two of them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC93

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
2 January 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.244-245, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel2356

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.228
Summary:

Discusses letter to [G. B.] Airy and JH's response to it. Discusses instruments at Toronto Observatory. Describes 18 November 1841 magnetic disturbances. Working on Atlantic declination maps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5516

From:
Sophie Beckedorff
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.6
Summary:

Recent political events in Germany. Family news. Hopes Lady Herschel's health has improved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3749

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.91
Summary:

H. C. Schumacher wants an application from the R.A.S. RS complied, giving reasons. 'Miss B.' [Elizabeth Baily] reluctant to write even the shortest formal note. Suggests JH announce her gift on taking the chair. Wants to 'jump' at [F. W. A.] Argelander's offer [to complete the British Catalogue]. Progress on his 'apparatus.' Has asked J. C. Adams to give the R.A.S. notice of the controversy about Neptune, in which U. J. J. Leverrier ('a very cantankerous fellow') has engaged. If Adams refuses, would JH respond?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4077

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.297
Summary:

Compiles published work, unpublished work, and lectures; asks JH to proof the compilation. Discusses meetings of R.S.L. concerning charter by-laws.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11044

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.384
Summary:

Has mislaid a piece of paper on the Addiscombe examinations that he intended sending to JH. Appear to be some changes in policy. Has taken a house in Grosvenor Place for one or two months. The Commission is not yet out.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3790

From:
Robert John Kane
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.4
Summary:

Would like JH's opinion on a memoir by M. McCann on the reflection of light from binaxal crystals. McCann is a candidate for a mathematical chair in Queen's College [Cork].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5532

From:
Frederick W. Beechey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.22
Summary:

Has at last received his letter and withdrawn the index.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11115

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[8 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.5
Summary:

M. McCann sent his paper to JH for communication to the R.S.L., which he did, but does not know the outcome of it. Was unable to report on it as his own knowledge was not modern enough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4525

From:
C[onstantine] E[stlin] Prichard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.187
Summary:

Informs JH of the death of CP's father, James Cowles Prichard.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4993

From:
F. W. A. Argelander
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.374
Summary:

Has notes on John Flamsteed. Shall he send them? Gives notices of two variable stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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