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Herschel3060

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.215
Summary:

Sends continuation of Belgian meteorological observations. Just finished magnetic observations. Plans to continue certain ones. Regrets being alone, without aids, 'in front of the transit instrument, the mural circle and the equatorial.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4199

From:
Andries Stockenström
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.17
Summary:

Thanks JH and MH for their support. Admits that before leaving the Cape he told the governor that he had no intention of returning. Ascribes difficulties of his term as Lieutenant Governor to problems inherent in having a military man in office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000034

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
5 June 1839
Source of text:
MM/1/53, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-518

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 176
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11105

From:
C. A. Jensen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.442
Summary:

Will be leaving London on 16 July and would like to meet JH at some convenient time to carry out H. C. Oersted's commission.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000470

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
25 June 1839
Source of text:
MM/9/50, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[June–Oct 1839]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6)
Summary:

Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
6 June [1839]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
Date:
26 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 185: 65–6
Summary:

CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.

Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?

Sends Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-524F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Green
Date:
[after 30 June 1839]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015)
Summary:

Returns proof sheets and requests revises. Gives his opinion of Mr Walkers’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1184

From:
Dominique François Jean Arago
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 June 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2762

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.42
Summary:

Dublin University is available on 2 July for instruction of the officers to be employed in the magnetic observatories. Suggests a note be sent to the R.S.L. stating that the changes in instrumentation are only slight modifications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2763

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.43
Summary:

Supports furnishing a wooden building at St. Helena despite the high temperatures of the tropical climate. Considers the expenses involved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-520

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 178
Summary:

Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-516

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 or 16] June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 144
Summary:

Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-522

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 147
Summary:

Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5583

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.73
Summary:

Sending JH some writings on geodesic measurements; reports the second measurement of annual parallax of 61 Cygni; comments on some other observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4690

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.79
Summary:

Has sent to JH papers relating to London University. Hopes JH will accept a senatorship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12308

From:
Hans Christian Oersted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.164
Summary:

Recommending Capt. Zahrtman of the Royal Danish Navy. Hopes to hear good news of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10552

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.429
Summary:

Sending HH's Medical Notes and Reflections (1839).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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