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From:
Arthur Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 November 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.226
Summary:
Has compared tables A and B and can find no identity between payments. Regarding the moon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.227
Summary:
Has undertaken the Annual Report again. Has JH anything to report? Hopes he is recovering from his cold. Should read Richard Sheepshanks's pamphlet for a good laugh. Further regarding the insurance tables.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.50 verso; Reel 7
Summary:
Looking forward to visit to Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Richard Weld
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.4 verso; Reel 7
Summary:
Committee of Physics will meet 6 Nov.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Richard Weld
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.8 verso; Reel 7
Summary:
[Form letter] Reminder that JH is expected to attend election of Council and officers on 1 Dec.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 November 1845
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121b
Summary:
Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 or 12] Nov 1845
Source of text:
DAR 114: 45
Summary:
Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".
Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Hitchcock
Date:
6 Nov [1845]
Source of text:
Amherst College Archives (Edward and Orra White Hitchcock papers: 2 Edward Hitchcock: Correspondence, Box 3, Folder 8)
Summary:
Thanks EH for his Final report on the geology of Massachusetts [1841]. Comments on EH’s discovery of fossil footprints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
12 [Nov 1845]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Asks for a meeting in order to go over the shells [which GBS was to describe in the appendix on Tertiary fossil shells in South America].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
13 Nov [1845]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
Sends corrections and suggestions for an advertisement for Zoology and Geology of "Beagle".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 46
Summary:
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 47
Summary:
Is busy with shell work and cannot make it to Kew. Invites JDH to Down. Intends asking Edward Forbes and Hugh Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 48
Summary:
Can JDH come to Down on 6 December? If this is convenient, CD will ask Forbes, Falconer, and perhaps Waterhouse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 49
Summary:
Delighted that JDH will come to visit him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.185
Summary:
Thinks Dean of Ely [George Peacock] should be appointed treasurer of R.S.L. Discusses George Rennie and Robert Brown as other possible candidates.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.186
Summary:
Communication from [Henry] Goulburn is official. Government will continue observatories and acquaint other governments with them. Admiralty will furnish meteorological instruments for coast stations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.187
Summary:
Encloses copy of letter to Lord Northampton that Northampton was to send on to [Henry] Goulburn. JH may send it to [Henry] Addington or to the states that have cooperated.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Field, Wardell, etc.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1845]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/9.27; Reel 7
Summary:
Encloses invoice for stout ordered by Mr. Stewart and sent to Mrs. Waterhouse of Old Brompton.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project