From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/644; MS JT/1/HTYP/512, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B1b
Summary:
[Six fragments, mainly diagrams.] The geometry of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 May [1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.5; Reel 1093
Summary:
Forwards report, just received, of three years of lunar diurnal variation at Cape of Good Hope. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 May [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 235
Summary:
Arranges meeting with JDH at Thatched House Tavern.
Eager for JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
18 May [1858]
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 255
Summary:
CD’s health has been poor owing to hard work [on Natural selection]. He has to treat of every branch of natural history, which is beyond his strength.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.6 (C: RGO 6.694.498)
Summary:
Has looked at the magnetic observations made at the Cape, and comments on their usefulness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 233
Summary:
Arrangements for JDH to visit Down for weekend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.314
Summary:
Thanks for JH's article on meteorology from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Has been investigating climatology lately. His own health has not been good. Sends some of his own reprints that may be of interest.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
S. Cleveland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.351
Summary:
Sending description of effects seen at Kirkby Lonsdale during the recent eclipse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johan Heinrich Jakob Muller
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/153, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22 May/58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/116; MS JT/1/TYP/3/984, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[22 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.231
Summary:
About insects JH's children caught and photographed; on a book on harmonics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[22 May 1858]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 57a
Summary:
Expresses thanks for several of JF's writings and relief at JF's good health. Comments on JH's own writing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23 Mai, 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2231, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-5074
Summary:
Has received papers relevant to the Magnetic Committee. Comments on letters by G. B. Airy and Edward Sabine, siding mainly with Airy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.312
Summary:
Has examined the animalcules JH sent. Sends some of his own obtained from ink! Regarding the variations of spelling his own name.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
25th. May 1858
Source of text:
RR/3/110 Tyndall 25 May 1858, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 27
Summary:
Has come to heavy grief about bees’ cells, unless Huber is wrong [François Huber, New observations on the natural history of bees, new ed. (1841)].
Discusses cart-horses and stripes on a Belgiman [Belgian?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-5075
Summary:
Believes that it is not worth the cost to sustain many permanent magnetic observatories, but a few for a limited time would make sense. Unclear which observatories these should be.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.297
Summary:
Comments on his plans for re-seating the church, and other matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project