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Herschel2017

From:
Baden Powell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.49
Summary:

Regarding JH's question about formulae for intensities of reflected light, BP encloses a paper concerning G. G. Stokes's conclusions about the direction of the plane of vibrations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[16 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 124)
Summary:

News of his health and the water-cure establishment.

[Origin] "my weariful book on Species" has been sent to WDF, who will not agree with it. Hooker is a convert, and Lyell is "staggered".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1652

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 Nov 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4092; 5:3674, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1654

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16 Nov 59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/119; MS JT/TYP/3/989, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1656

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Thursday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1963, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1655

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15 Nov 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4150; 5:3675, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10132

From:
Robert Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.19
Summary:

Has received a letter from Sir George Lewis stating that he has been appointed to the chair of Practical Astronomy at Glasgow University. Is grateful for his support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
[17 November 1859]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/TR64 (C: RS:HS 23.288)
Summary:

Thanks for several papers; JH describes article on telescopes he has prepared for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4180

From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:

Receives additions to JH's Telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
18 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918)
Summary:

Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.

"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6546

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.292
Summary:

Is sending the third volume of Ecliptic stars. Has arrived in Leamington for the winter and for his daughter's marriage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2394

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.253
Summary:

Discusses [Angelo] Secchi's letter. Can supply the Jesuits in Cuba with magnetic apparatus they need. Discusses Secchi's views on cause of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2534

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B7–8
Summary:

Will judge CD’s book [Origin] free from two superstitions: the dogma of the permanent species and the need of an act of intervention to bring change.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3547

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[18 November 1859]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:1129 (C: TCD 1493:1130, TCD 7762-72:1460)
Summary:

Again admires WH's quaternions but begs that WH make them more accessible. Suggests book with rules clearly stated and examples relating them to ordinary problems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
19 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 2 (EH 88205919)
Summary:

Asks to hear WBC’s conclusion about the Origin when he has read it all. Knows only one believer so far – J. D. Hooker. Sometimes feels frightened that he may be a monomaniac.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1658

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13c/1163, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[19 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465)
Summary:

Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1657

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19 Nov/59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/120; MS JT/TYP/3/990, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 27
Summary:

Curious about author of review of Origin in Athenæum.

W. B. Carpenter has written and sounds converted, as has Quatrefages [de Bréau], who will "go a long way with" CD.

Has been ill and thus had time to brood about reception of book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1344

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
20 November 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.134, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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