From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
22nd July 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/650; MS JT/1/HTYP/517, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[24 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.267
Summary:
Note accompanying something being discussed in the music world.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[24 July 1859]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.18
Summary:
Sees no need for changes to the plates for Outlines Astr.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 24th 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/224, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 [July 1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.36–37)
Summary:
Sends five sheets [of Origin] to printer. Incapable of forming an opinion, but thinks he has the style "fairly good and clear". Cannot conjecture if book will be successful enough to satisfy JM.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Main
Date:
27 July [1859]
Source of text:
Royal Astronomical Society (MSS Radcliffe. E.1.200)
Summary:
Thanks RM for copies of CD’s article on geology in the Admiralty scientific manual [J. F. W. Herschel ed., A manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Empson
Date:
27 July [1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.75
Summary:
Thanks for sending the note of A. J. Ellis. Comments on this and his own apparent mistake. Pleased to hear that the invalid is progressing. Their potato crop has an attack of the blight.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
27 July 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.227, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.7; Reel 1093
Summary:
Replied to J. A. da Silva that Kew Observatory would gladly train Portuguese observers and superintend manufacture of instruments, but that ES could not speak for English government. [JH annotation: Summary of letter from da Silva, director of meteorological observatory in Lisbon, requesting training for Portuguese observers at Kew, British influence on Portuguese government to join magnetic survey, and advice on instruments.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [July 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 20
Summary:
CD wants JDH to make clear in introduction to Flora Tasmaniae that remarks on CD’s theory refer to his 1858 paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
29th July 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/651, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.310
Summary:
His Daguerreotype arrived safely. Hopes to get some better photographs of the spectra before the end of the summer. Sees why their results differ.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Date:
[31 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.309 & 23.268
Summary:
Acknowledges the proof sheets of the new edition of the Physical Geography of the Sea. Will read them with the attention they deserve. Does not at present agree with the theories of MM.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project