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From:
James Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.131; Reel 9
Summary:

[Cavr.?] Peruzzi departed for Florence Wednesday and took Duke of Northumberland's letters. At next opportunity, JB will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Florence observatory and to G. B. Amici.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[11 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64)
Summary:

Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1847]
Source of text:
JHS 6.35
Summary:

Is concerned about a domestic [?] who is having fits; asks MH to get some information on the rights of domestics, and then JH asks MH to get him some scientific information that would be at the R.S.L. library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[11 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0210.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Thanks for information [on latest platina research]. Has encountered 'a totally new metallic chemistry.' Searching for papers by Mr. Gros and Mr. Beiset. Describes JH's experiments with 'Platinoids,' which JH named like asteroids: Heberum, Astraeum, and Neptunium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[11 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0210.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Encloses JH's letter of 11 Oct., which was not mailed to RK. Discovered traces of titanium in Astraeum. Puzzled by saline compounds that appear in JH's experiments with 'Platinoids.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project