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Herschel2177

From:
Sir Francis Ronalds
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.422
Summary:

Has had a compensating barometer constructed. Requests thoughts concerning compensating barometers. Sends some memos concerning pendulums and other topics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1117

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
10 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6)
Summary:

Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3113

From:
Paul Partsch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.143
Summary:

Has received package in Turkey from JH. Sends thanks to JH through Sir Robert Brown. Values highly the gift of fragments from a meteor fallen near Cold-Bokkovold on 13 October 1838.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7530

From:
William Yolland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.47; Reel 9
Summary:

As successor to T. F. Colby, WY invites JH to send offered copy of JH's Cape Results to library of Ordnance Survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.

Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7602

From:
John Pringle Nichol
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.119; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results, donated to university library. David Brewster is head of St. Andrews College, and Daniel Dewar is head of Marischal College in Aberdeen. Hopes observatory will be complete when B.A.A.S. meets again in Glasgow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7531

From:
Thomas Bell Elcock Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.48; Reel 9
Summary:

Will announce JH's offer to give [Cape Results] to Philosophical Institution's library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7643

From:
William Jerdan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11 September [1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/6.10; Reel 9
Summary:

Sends copy of Literary Gazette, containing notice of [JH's Cape Results], which WJ saw while visiting mutual friend J. C. Ross.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:

David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.

Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2336

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.207
Summary:

Discusses Mrs. Sabine's translation of [Alexander von] Humboldt's Cosmos, particularly some theological passages.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6534

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.286
Summary:

Encloses copies of configurations of nebulae clusters and explains his readings. Has he heard of Macedoine Melloni's water eye piece? [Andrew] Graham has invented a new micrometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12803

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
[16 September 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0209; Reel 1054
Summary:

Asks for latest chemical information on platina groups, or 'Platinoids.' In trying to remove platina from mineral specimens JH may have found new metal. Describes its characteristics. P.S.: Keep this information private.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1273

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 September 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel5628

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.118
Summary:

Informing JH that he has sent a letter to John Lee [RS:HS.4.117] and that Lee agrees with WB and wonders if it would be possible to obtain JH's support. Encloses drawings and details of Francis Ronalds's self registering barometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7532

From:
Francis Hodgson and G. R. Green
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.49; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for library's receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7439

From:
William Smith Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.9; Reel 9
Summary:

Fifteen copies [of JH's Cape Results] sent as JH directed. Remainder of 112 copies due today from binder. Awaiting JH's instructions for distribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7603

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.120; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results. Just returned from geological tour of highlands with [Bernhard] Studer from Bern [Switzerland]. Hopes to purchase Madame Witte's 'model of the Moon...for Edinburgh,' if it has not been bought in London. Observed Neptune at Oxford in company with U. J. J. Leverrier, J. C. Adams, and Wilhelm Struve.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7588

From:
Christian C. J. Bunsen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.105; Reel 9
Summary:

Copy of JH's Cape Results was sent to king of Prussia. Other copies will be forwarded to astronomers in Germany. Note on [Alexander von] Humboldt's itinerary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7533

From:
Edward Riddle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.50; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1120

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
20 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.3813)
Summary:

Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".

Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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