From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 62, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 Jan 1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 63, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Feb 1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 65, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
22 Jun 1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 76, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Adelaide Kemble
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Jun 1837
Source of text:
MSK 2 / 44, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.209
Summary:
Still has not heard from JH. Has put much effort into horary observations of solstices and equinoxes. Sends JH articles by AQ on temperatures of earth. Will send magnetic observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.211
Summary:
Welcomes JH back to England. Proof that AQ never ceased thinking of JH is that AQ never quit his horary observations. Has sent books to R.S.L. for JH. Has restarted his notices on meteors. Is determining their longitude in relation to Greenwich. [Richard] Sheepshanks brought AQ JH's portrait and bust.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.210
Summary:
Thanks for two letters. Updates JH on observatories participating in horary observations. Proposes to reduce observations. Sends second part of Brussel's annals and other works. Discusses a phenomenon on 10 August. Mentions several observations of the Aurorae Borealis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Allen (Bishop of Ely)
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 July 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 August 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.176
Summary:
Tells JH about artifact exhibition AS has set up, and about preparation for publication of some astronomical observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.177
Summary:
More about lack of success of exhibition, and about publication of observations [see AS's 1837-8-27].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.183
Summary:
Will be a great reception for JH when he returns. Is working on a theory of probabilities. Francis Baily is the man for mapping the entire heavens. G. B. Airy is to test JH's topsy-turvy observations of Orion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
To:
Duke of Sussex
Date:
4 November 1837
Source of text:
MM/12/30, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1837
Source of text:
DAR 29.1: C3
Summary:
Reports on the insect specimens [collected by CD] from Australia, New Zealand, and Tierra del Fuego. Has not completed descriptions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Baden Powell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
9 Aug 1837
Source of text:
MSP 5 / 280, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Francis Thornhill Baring, Lord Northbrook
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 322)
Summary:
Their Lordships communicate their entire approval of the proposal in CD’s letter of 20 September 1837. [See 378a.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.186
Summary:
Sends a small dispatch from J. D. Forbes. The barometer seems to have no connection with the weather this winter. Had a snow shower but could see no clouds in the sky. Preparing for the occultation of Mars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.187
Summary:
Encloses a dispatch from Thomas Henderson, who is very pleased with his work and a word from JH would spur him on. Is more out of touch with science at Edinburgh than JH is at the Cape. Young engineer, J. S. Russell, has idea for swift towing canal boats. Doubtless he has seen Francis Baily's supplement on John Flamsteed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.188
Summary:
Further information about boats in canals. Sends proof sheets of the article in question.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.189
Summary:
Is pleased to hear the Herschels are contemplating their return but regrets it will not be via Rio. J. D. Forbes is progressing well, may be in danger of overwork. Thomas Henderson too is doing good work at the Observatory. Gives results of lunar eclipses of Oct. 1837.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project