From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.255
Summary:
Regarding their various points of view on a certain question.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 September 1849
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published precis of this letter see Daley (1935) p. 133
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 September 1849
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published precis of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 133-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[2 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.80)
Summary:
Discusses effect of subsidence and elevation on deposits. Cites examples along coasts of South America and Wales. Proposes theory to explain thickness of deposits in south Wales.
Asks CL’s opinion of his theory of "craters of elevation" described in Volcanic islands.
Mentions CL’s comparison of Mississippi beds to the Pampas.
Comments on Poulett Scrope’s views on the separation of basalt and trachyte.
Describes his cirripede work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[21 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Describes his research on cirripedes.
Comments on paper by AH ["Notice of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Asks to borrow specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
25 Sept [1849]
Source of text:
University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives
Summary:
Asks to borrow cirripede specimens. Describes his research.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A92–A95
Summary:
Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.
His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Sept [1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks AH for specimens of Alcippe.
Discusses capacity of Lithotrya to bore its own hole. Believes Arthrobalanus also makes cavities this way.
Asks to see paper on cirripedes by Sven Lovén.
Comments on paper by AH [see 1253].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E[neas] MacKintosh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 September [1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.23
Summary:
Has seen Leslie Melville who can be relied on to give John [JH's son] the Addiscombe appointment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Hodges Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.28
Summary:
Cast of the late Francis Baily is ready, also the one of JH. These will be forwarded as arranged.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 September 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.396
Summary:
Encloses letters from Thomas Maclear and returns one of JH's.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.397
Summary:
Encloses more letters from Thomas Maclear. Admiration for Maclear's energy. Cape Town is in a state of semi-rebellion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.217 (C: RGO 6.248.130)
Summary:
Informing JH that they have been appointed members of a committee for proving a three foot reflector for the Cape Town Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Ann Henslow
Date:
11 September 1849
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
14 September 1849
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 39
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
28 September 1849
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 217–18 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
CD partly right. JDH was calling "stratification" what CD calls "foliation". Answers CD’s question on cleavage foliation in Himalayas. Glacial action.
Charmed by CD’s Admiralty instructions on geology [in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50], but complains he does not give prices of books and instruments he recommends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
Sept 24 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 209
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
10th Sept. 1849
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/32; MS JT/1/T/521, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria
Date:
5 September 1849
Source of text:
MM/9/2, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society