From:
unknown
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
4 April 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/52, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Alfred Swaine Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 April 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Hudson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 April 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 April 1839
Source of text:
UB MS NS 330
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
unknown
Date:
30 April 1839
Source of text:
MM/21/29, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Comte Jarsana de Briguola
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1839]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.11 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Encloses statutes of General Shipwreck Relief Society, which JH is interested in joining.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
Date:
[c. 1 Apr 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 62
Summary:
Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.
In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?
[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Apr [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6)
Summary:
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société géologique de France
Date:
25 Apr 1839
Source of text:
Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles (Autographe Darwin)
Summary:
Acknowledges, on behalf of the Geological Society, receipt of the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, vol. 9, feuilles 29, 34.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[27 Apr 1839 or earlier]
Source of text:
University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73)
Summary:
Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.33
Summary:
Asks JH if he would like the Meteorological Committee to meet before R.S.L. Council meets. Having received news that the wife of [Thomas] Spring Rice, the person in charge of the fixed observations, is 'dangerously ill,' ES proposes that responsibility of the project be moved to one of the executive departments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.34
Summary:
Informs JH that a meteorological committee has been called. Discusses financial matters concerning the fixed observatories. Has written to [Thomas] Spring Rice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.35
Summary:
Reports that the precept has been sent for putting the fixed magnetic observatories at St. Helena, the Cape, and Canada into execution, and that the instruments for three Indian observatories have been ordered. Writes that Humphrey Lloyd has made plans for the portable buildings and fixed stations. Discusses expenses of the observatories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.36
Summary:
Reports his successful meeting with Hussey Vivian, whose full support of the fixed observatories is to be communicated to the R.S.L. Council by ES. Says that Vivian desires to read the memorials of the B.A.A.S. and the R.S.L. Will look into the changes in design of the magnetometers. Suggests budgets for the observatories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.38
Summary:
Encloses a copy of financial estimates concerning the fixed observatories. Expects bills will be paid by the Treasury. Has conveyed Hussey Vivian's support of the project to the Council of the R.S.L. Clarifies that no vertical magnetometers have been or will be ordered until Humphrey Lloyd is satisfied with their design. Reports that the three officers have been selected for the project. Mentions praise from C. F. Gauss for the project.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 April [1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.327
Summary:
Sends documents with earliest suggestion of Antarctic magnetic variation. Also sends letter from [A. T.] Kupffer. Materials received from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Prague, and Milan. All sent to [Humphrey] Lloyd.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.39
Summary:
Reports that the original cost estimate of the magnetometers was low and that other instruments have been ordered. Asks to borrow clocks from the R.S.L. and the R.A.S. Has written to Major Jarvis for observers for the East Indies observatories but expects none will be found.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.40
Summary:
Suggests changes in the memorial regarding fixed observatories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.41
Summary:
Favors C. F. Gauss's theory of two magnetic poles, provided it satisfies the data. Office of the Artillery at Woolwich plans to 'furnish a set of instruments by private subscription.' Suggests a staff officer be appointed for the correspondence between observatories. Worries that the East Indies observatory will fail.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
HH Watson
Date:
11 April 1839
Source of text:
MM/15/109, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society