| Herschel3835 | From: | William Rowan Hamilton | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [1 September 1847] | Classmark: | 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 |
Herschel7646 | From: | Sir John Herschel | To: | George Bancroft | Date: | [1 September 1847] | Classmark: | 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 |
DCP-LETT-1112 | From: | Charles Robert Darwin | To: | John Forbes Royle | Date: | 1 Sept [1847] | Classmark: | 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 |
Herschel7577 | From: | Count [Gerrit] Schimmelpenninck | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [1 September 1847] | Classmark: | 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 |
Herschel7527 | From: | John Bullar | To: | Margaret Brodie Herschel | Date: | [2 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.44; Reel 9 | Summary: | Thanks MH for fulfilling promise. Hails JH's [Cape Results] as grand testimony to God's infinite power. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7585 | From: | William Parsons (Lord Rosse) | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [2 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.102; Reel 9 | Summary: | Will call for JH's [Cape Results] when in London. One of WP's assistants reported ring around Neptune last winter, but WP is skeptical. Instruments idle for nine months. WP too busy with [Irish famine] relief. Wrote to T. R. Robinson to find competent assistant. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7601 | From: | Count Revel | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [2 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.118; Reel 9 | Summary: | In response to JH's letter to the late Count [Polton?], Revel will forward two copies of JH's Cape Results to Turin for distribution to academic institutions. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
DCP-LETT-1113 | From: | Charles Robert Darwin | To: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby | Date: | 2 Sept [1847] | Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (61) | Summary: | Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.] | Contributor: | Darwin Correspondence Project |
Herschel7528 | From: | [C. M. Wilke] | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | 4 September [1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.45; Reel 9 | Summary: | Thanks JH for citing CW's 'endeavours in connexion with Mr. [Sherman?].' | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7641 | From: | George Peacock | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [4 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/6.8; Reel 9 | Summary: | Will soon marry [Frances] Selwyn, sister of Bishop of New Zealand. Favorable comments on [Cape Results]. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel12179 | From: | Georg Merz & Son | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [5 September 1847] | Classmark: | RS:HS 13.37 | Summary: | Thanks for the address of the Admiralty; will send the instrument away in three weeks. Would JH send his observations to them via Williams Norgate (bookseller). | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7438 | From: | William Smith Williams | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [6 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/3.8; Reel 9 | Summary: | Received 112 epigraphs inscribed by JH for insertion into presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results], to be distributed as directed. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel4629 | From: | James Constantine Adamson | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [7 September 1847] | Classmark: | RS:HS 1.13 | Summary: | Relating to the appointment of Langham Dale to the staff of the South African College. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
DCP-LETT-1115 | From: | Robert Chambers | To: | David Milne Home | Date: | 7 Sept 1847 | Classmark: | DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1 | Summary: | Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery. | Contributor: | Darwin Correspondence Project |
Herschel10138 | From: | James William Grant | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [7 September 1847] | Classmark: | RS:HS 9.25 | Summary: | Has been appointed Apothecary General. His own wife's health has not been good. Hopes all is well at Collingwood. What is he doing about William? Comments on the field open to chemistry students. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7529 | From: | Manuel John Johnson | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [7 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.46; Reel 9 | Summary: | Gratitude on behalf of observatory trustees for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Distributed copies as directed. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7890 | From: | Élie François Wartmann | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [7 September 1847] | Classmark: | RS:HS 18.93 | Summary: | Comments on electrical equipment, and then refers to a variety of experiments, including shocking chickens awake that have been given ether, and the study of other electrical effects on gases and various liquid substances. Wonders about the use of ether/electric shock on humans in surgery. Congratulates JH on his Cape Results. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
Herschel7586 | From: | Edward Joshua Cooper | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [8 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.103; Reel 9 | Summary: | Praises JH's Cape Results. Sends EC's paper read at Royal Irish Academy, three engravings of EC's 'Circle,' and EC's recent work dabbling 'in other than Astronomical affairs.' | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
DCP-LETT-1116 | From: | Charles Robert Darwin | To: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet | Date: | 8 [Sept 1847] | Classmark: | DAR 50: C3–C6 | Summary: | Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory. | Contributor: | Darwin Correspondence Project |
Herschel7492 | From: | Adolphe Quetelet | To: | Sir John Herschel | Date: | [8 September 1847] | Classmark: | RAS:JH Archive 10/5.9; Reel 9 | Summary: | [Form letter] Royal Academy of Science and Humanities acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results. | Contributor: | John Herschel Project |
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