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From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.210
Summary:

Recommendations on how best to make tidal observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
2 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859))
Summary:

Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
4 January 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.191, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0301; Reel 1087
Summary:

Explains combined British and foreign postage rate applied to JH's letter, which has been forwarded to France. [JH annotation on verso about actinometer.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.176
Summary:

Sends extracts of a letter from H. C. Schumacher. Does not agree with Schumacher regarding F. W. Bessel's 'specific attraction.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.269
Summary:

Has been investigating the Cavendish experiments recently repeated by Francis Baily. Thinks G. B. Airy has neglected the resistance of the air in his mathematical theory. Would like to send an abstract of his investigations so that JH can judge their merits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.56
Summary:

Recounts discussion in R.A.S. council regarding how the Society's medal should be awarded in response to the discovery of Neptune. U. J. J. Leverrier led J. C. Adams in the voting, but did not receive enough votes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[8 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.296
Summary:

Needs someone to translate German/Latin letters; about James Ross's polar expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.233
Summary:

Will do what he can for J. C. Gerhardt. Appears to be unfair regarding Isaac Newton and G. W. Leibniz. Is working on a list of writings in arithmetic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.270
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter on the Cavendish experiment. Gives outline of his own theories regarding certain aspects of the Cavendish experiments, and would like his opinion on these before they are incorporated into a paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.166
Summary:

Sends a note along with a work on vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[14 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.57 (C: RS:HS 25.9.32)
Summary:

Congratulations on how the deliberations concerning awarding the R.A.S. medal came off 'well & quietly.' Recommends how JH's notice on F. W. Bessel should be distributed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.234
Summary:

Has seen the papers, which consist of some 30 pages, the longest being in the Commercium Epistolicum. Knows someone who would copy them accurately and at a reasonable price.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[19 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2)
Summary:

Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[on or before 20 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.57)
Summary:

Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
20 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Much interested in BS’s letter on gneiss ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 186–7].

Sends copy of South America.

Has shown that lamination of metamorphic schists closely allied with cleavage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
21 [Jan 1847]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.26
Summary:

Sending a revised copy of his own memoir on F. W. Bessel. Council of the R.A.S. have not awarded a medal this year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.271
Summary:

Sends his manuscripts. Discusses some of Michael Faraday's experiments, in particular his theory on the non-magnetism of blood. Has sent Faraday a paper on the action of voltaic currents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65)
Summary:

Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.

Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].

Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project