From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Cuming
Date:
[Oct? 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.82)
Summary:
Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Hodges Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.29
Summary:
The two casts will be forwarded tomorrow.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
3 October 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.215-216, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
[Edward] Champnes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.331
Summary:
Would like JH's views on the enlarging of the local church.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[7 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A89–A90
Summary:
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
8 Oct 1849
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Discusses cirripedes collected by JDD.
Gratified that he agrees "to some extent" with CD’s views on coral reefs.
Mentions his health.
Asks for JDD’s publication on cirripedes.
Sends message from William Baird concerning Crustacea research of J. O. Westwood.
Mentions Joseph Leidy’s discovery of cirripede eyes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Hodges Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.30
Summary:
Is glad to hear that the casts arrived safely. Is flattered by Lady Herschel's remarks.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean Plana
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Oct 1849
Source of text:
MSP 4 / 265, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.298
Summary:
Discusses the site of Cold Harbor. Visits the small personal observatory of J. G. Barclay, who WS thinks will produce good work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Sharp
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.203
Summary:
Asks JH's opinion on a passage from [John] Williams's Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Seas regarding unusual tides in Tahiti and Society Islands.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[before 12 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A91
Summary:
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hans Christian Oersted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.172
Summary:
Thanks for promise of kind intervention on his behalf, but he believes that JH would not advise him to publish the work in England. Thinks it would be more welcome in Germany. Would like comments and corrections.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Oct 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 116
Summary:
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[14 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.71
Summary:
Discusses Cold Harbor. Suggests the Duke of Bedford [F. C. H. Russell] could help secure a pension for Thomas Maclear.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
14 October 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.219, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH & [Archibald] Campbell [AC] are on route to Lachen Pass [Kongra Lama]. He asks WJH or J.[John] Smith to keep a list of all the fruits & seeds he sends. Jatamansi [Paom peu Bhot] has ripened. JDH sends [Hugh] Falconer duplicates of all his seeds. He describes AC’s altitude sickness & his temperament.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[19 October 1849]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20777 (C: RS:HS 23.72)
Summary:
Thanks WW for two papers, one dealing with G. F. W. Hegel. Discusses a problem in calculating double star orbits.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.375
Summary:
Discusses B.A.A.S. resolution regarding the Cape observatory. Wants accurate drawings of nebulae to attempt to ascertain change. Wants JH to petition government to get reflector at Cape.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Hodges Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.31
Summary:
Is sorry his letter [see EB's 1849-10-10] has not been received, but he replied by return of post.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.142.149
Summary:
Is William Dawes equatorial telescope available for purchase?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Swale and Wilson
Date:
[on or before 24 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
W. H. Thorpe (private collection)
Summary:
Orders books [Hugh Miller, Foot-prints of the Creator (1849)
and Carl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Thoughts and opinions of a statesman, Sir Arthur Helps, ed. (1849)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project