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RS-MM-000731

From:
unknown
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
4 March 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/50, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4464

From:
Acton Tindal
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.438
Summary:

Informs JH that JH has been recommended to the Queen for the Commission of Peace.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4198

From:
Andries Stockenström
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.16
Summary:

Outraged over a [London] Times report of a massacre at Fort Natal in the Cape colony, which AS believes cannot be true; backs up his belief with a letter from a soldier at Fort Natal. Will take a business trip to Holland after which he 'will be ready for anything the Government may please.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9729

From:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.76
Summary:

Thanks for his letter informing him of his having been awarded the Copley medal. Was pleased to receive the observations of the magnetic declination and inclination of London. Projected expedition of Captain J. C. Ross pleases him. C. F. Gauss is now preparing the third volume of the Resultate. Would like JH's opinion on one of the papers in this volume. Gives his own views on the magnetic poles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11942

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.304
Summary:

Is working on a memoir concerning animal electricity. Would like to present it to the R.S.L. and wonders if it would qualify for a prize.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5346

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.293
Summary:

Making his last experiments on the morrow. Travels to and from Slough in the course of his experiments. Hopes JH will join him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8388

From:
Charles Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.273
Summary:

Would like to assist James Stewart as JH asked, but CG resigned recently as Colonial Secretary and cannot help. [JH annotation: 'Called on Lord G. [Glenelg, i.e., Charles Grant] with Js St. [James Stewart] May 1/39.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[8 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[18 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)
Summary:

Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[19 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl; Henry Colburn
Date:
[21 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18)
Summary:

Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1150

From:
Edmund Storr Halswell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2748

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.28
Summary:

Strongly urges JH to support employment of artillery men in the St. Helena and Canada fixed observatories, citing the approval of the private secretary. Reports that four sets of magnetic instruments have been ordered.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2749

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.29
Summary:

Asks JH to read enclosed item and send it to [J. F.] Daniell, who in turn will send it to John Phillips, so that they might be ready to reply to the Council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2750

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.30
Summary:

Speaks of his meeting with the acting general of artillery and the master general secretary, who approved of employing men and engineers in the fixed observation work in St. Helena and Canada. Encloses the remainder of the translation of C. F. Gauss's first volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2751

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.31
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd has asked for magnetometers, assuming that the 'Authority' approves of the instruments. Remarks that Lloyd's observatory will be ready for visitors in late June and that Lloyd plans to go to the continent in July. States nothing more can be done regarding the selection of employees until the Authority acts. Believes an application will have to be made to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2752

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.32
Summary:

Encloses a paper. Says C. F. Gauss will make six magnetometers in two months.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-500

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 146
Summary:

Has objected to loading Narrative with advertisements, but thinks CD’s Zoology and Geology might be advertised. Mentions other details of the final stages of publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6029

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.154
Summary:

Regarding the four foot scale standard of Thomas Maclear. Will be pleased to see him on Thursday. R.A.S. has had a letter from the Treasury regarding a grant for Glasgow Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5505

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 March [1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.405
Summary:

Is grateful for the information on photography. Encloses president's card.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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