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From:
'King Neptune'
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 September 1847
Source of text:
RB MSS M197, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.9; Reel 9
Summary:
[Form letter] Royal Academy of Science and Humanities acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
7 Sept 1847
Source of text:
DAR 143: 5, DAR 146: 1
Summary:
Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
28 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/50)
Summary:
The Glenroy terraces match WK’s measurements of the terraces on the Tweed.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Christian C. J. Bunsen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.105; Reel 9
Summary:
Copy of JH's Cape Results was sent to king of Prussia. Other copies will be forwarded to astronomers in Germany. Note on [Alexander von] Humboldt's itinerary.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Conrad Kupper
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16 Sept 1847
Source of text:
MS JT/5/15c, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Count Revel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.118; Reel 9
Summary:
In response to JH's letter to the late Count [Polton?], Revel will forward two copies of JH's Cape Results to Turin for distribution to academic institutions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Count [Gerrit] Schimmelpenninck
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.94; Reel 9
Summary:
King of Netherlands received copy of JH's Cape Results and wishes to award gold medal to JH. Does JH accept?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
1 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013)
Summary:
Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
2 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.61)
Summary:
Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C3–C6
Summary:
Discusses David Milne’s Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Rejects Milne’s theory that outlet of Glen Roy is blocked by detritus. Impressed by Milne’s discovery of an outlet at the level of the second shelf. Believes this strengthens theory that lakes were formed by glacier blocking Glen Roy. Offers arguments against glacier theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
10 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6)
Summary:
Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.
Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:
David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.
Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Milne Home
Date:
20 [Sept 1847]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.3813)
Summary:
Comments on paper by DM ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. "I am not in the least convinced about the Barriers … [but] I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz & [William] Buckland." Will "send a letter to the Scotsman, in which I give briefly my present impression".
Cites facts mentioned in South America possibly of use to DM.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Scotsman
Date:
[after 20 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 50: B1–9
Summary:
Comments on article by David Milne ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. Refers to his paper on Glen Roy [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. Comments on Louis Agassiz’s article ["The glacial theory and its recent progress", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 33 (1842): 217–83]. Cites his own observations on glaciers in N. Wales. Discusses possibility of ice barrier creating lake. Notes objections to theory of an ice barrier. Defends his own theory that the roads are sea-beaches. Suggests questions for further investigation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.121; Reel 9
Summary:
Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results, not yet received. Send copy for [St. Andrews] University through Smith, Elder & Co., booksellers to the university. Concurs with JH on names for asteroids.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.51; Reel 9
Summary:
Gratitude on behalf of Yorkshire Philosophical Society for JH's offer to send Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.103; Reel 9
Summary:
Praises JH's Cape Results. Sends EC's paper read at Royal Irish Academy, three engravings of EC's 'Circle,' and EC's recent work dabbling 'in other than Astronomical affairs.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.286
Summary:
Encloses copies of configurations of nebulae clusters and explains his readings. Has he heard of Macedoine Melloni's water eye piece? [Andrew] Graham has invented a new micrometer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project