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From:
Count [Gerrit] Schimmelpenninck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.94; Reel 9
Summary:

King of Netherlands received copy of JH's Cape Results and wishes to award gold medal to JH. Does JH accept?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
1 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013)
Summary:

Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Bancroft
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.12; Reel 9
Summary:

Asks help in forwarding copies of JH's Cape Results to U.S. List of 19 recipients and addresses. Asks GB's help in correcting errors before JH inscribes copies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wants WH's quaternion mathematics to be challenged; also worries that quaternions will become merely 'a private and personal skill' instead of a method that can be taught.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project