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Herschel7855

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.59
Summary:

R.S.L. sent JH's ['On the Algebraic Expression of the Number of Partitions...' (1850)], asking HW to judge its merits for publication in R.S.P.T.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel835

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1850]
Source of text:
JHS 3.21c
Summary:

George Peacock is seriously ill; Charles Lyell urged JH to see a hippopotamus that had been brought to London; news of family and friends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9319

From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 June [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.73
Summary:

Sending proofs. Will see that he has altered a few words here and there. Mrs. Jones's health has improved and she talks of going to Richmond.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9175

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0570
Summary:

Comments on the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the possibility, favored at Cambridge, that JH would serve on that committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13275

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Louisa Herschel
Date:
[1850 or later]-6-3
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0532; Reel 1053
Summary:

Gratitude that Louisa sustained her resolution and resisted temptation. Trust mother [MBH] if in doubt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12373

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.230
Summary:

Invitation to dinner next Wednesday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12937

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Lord John Russell
Date:
[4 June 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0348; Reel 1054
Summary:

Agrees to serve on proposed commission of enquiry into state of Cambridge University, provided that JH may resign if enquiry lasts more than one year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel557

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[4 June 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.356.161
Summary:

Describes JH's decimal coinage system as he would like to see it introduced.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7856

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.60
Summary:

Review of JH's paper [see HW's 1850-6-1] renewed HW's interest in 4- and 5-partitions of numbers. Will complete paper on combinations during vacation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7857

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.61
Summary:

Favorable report to R.S.L. on JH's paper. Suggests minor changes. Verified only methods, not numerical values. Shows more general treatment of partitions than one that JH developed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2196

From:
Lord John Russell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.440
Summary:

Does not want JH to enquire into the University of Oxford. JH may resign at the end of the year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5901

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.24
Summary:

Has the two copies of the book reserved for JH and Lady Herschel. Will send them later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9320

From:
William Empson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7] June [1850
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.74
Summary:

Would like JH's opinion on the layout of his page.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1337

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 June 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94)
Summary:

Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.

Personal and social comment.

Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[8] June [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12494

From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.360
Summary:

Invites JH to come to see the flowering plants in Syon gardens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12495

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
1850-6-9 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.361
Summary:

Margaret Herschel will avail herself of the offer [see AP's 1850-6-9]; inquires what is happening to the letters from AP's father that JH had given to AP.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001101

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
11 June 1850
Source of text:
MM/16/138, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1850]
Source of text:
JHS 6.29
Summary:

Has received an invitation from Algernon Percy and JH has accepted for MH and a few friends; JH has received a letter offering some lost spoons with JH's arms and crest. JH says this must be an attempt at a swindle as he has lost no such spoons, since they never existed. Urges some checking by MH. [Letter contains a note by MH asking someone to investigate on JH's behalf.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 115
Summary:

On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.

Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.

Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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