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Herschel4633

From:
Admiralty
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.17
Summary:

Informing JH that J. C. Pritchard [Prichard] has been asked to send him material for chapter on Ethnology for 'Scientific Manual' for naval officers, which JH is preparing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7613

From:
Alfred Gautier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.130; Reel 9
Summary:

Informs JH that JH has been made an honorary member of the Physical and Natural History Society of Geneva; the Society thanks JH for a copy of his Cape Results. Comments on F. V. Mauvais's discovery of a comet and on the illness and death of Caroline Herschel. Will send comments on some of JH's astronomical work later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14140

From:
Alfred Miles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0367; Reel 1087
Summary:

Paid £5 into JH's account at Drummond's Bank today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12492

From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.358
Summary:

Arrangements for a meeting with JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6973

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.241
Summary:

Sending something from Airy relating to the testimonial. Anything he does not use can be returned to Somerset House for AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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KEMP79

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
18 Feb 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/59)
Summary:

Is about to send his manuscript to the printers, and asks for any late additions.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

Herschel5372

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.319
Summary:

Regarding the origins of the R.A.S. Will try and find a substitute trustee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2050

From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 February 1848
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.11
Summary:

As JH has accepted the superintendency of the Admiralty Manual he will try to undertake the geological part, but it will take time as he is busy on another project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7952

From:
Charles Wheatstone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.153
Summary:

Seriously ill. Will forward manuscripts to JH by next week.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1848
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 11)
Summary:

Undertakes to write geological part of Admiralty Instructions [A manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Has doubts as to his success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[4 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has been invited to contribute geological instructions [to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849); Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Asks RO whether remarks on coral reefs appertain to geology rather than zoology.

Looks forward to visit by Owens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
4 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.

"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[5 or 6] Feb 1848
Source of text:
British Museum (Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXIX)
Summary:

Thanks the Trustees of the British Museum for entrusting to him the collection of Cirripedia and allowing him to disarticulate one specimen of each species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[5 or 6] Feb 1848
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.72)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum and problems of classification. Encloses a note of thanks to be laid before the Trustees [see 1153].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1153F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Smith of Jordanhill
Date:
6 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Glasgow City Archives (396/TD1)
Summary:

Thanks for present of fossil Balani.

Thanks also for JS’s request to David Landsborough to send barnacle specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[6 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.69)
Summary:

Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
12 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD cannot find the lagoon-island mud that WCW asked about, but he sends other geological specimens he hopes will be interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1160

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848]
Source of text:
Watt Library, Greenock
Summary:

Thanks RC for information on hand-level; he has recommended it in his "Instructions" ["Geology", Collected papers 1: 227–50].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1157

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
14 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Asks for the reference in which JP states that some erratic boulders came from a lower to a higher level. CD is writing a paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–26] in which he believes he has the true explanation. Would like as many instances, with details, as possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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