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Herschel7010

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.259
Summary:

Has never heard the polar axis approximation. JH's treatise on perspective must be very complete. John Taylor is his old publisher. Has got 64 more syllogisms symbolized.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4534

From:
Charles Henry Parry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.141
Summary:

Recommends F. E. Wilmot for election to R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-50-03-10

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1850
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 134-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-50-03-17

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 March 1850
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 135-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

Faraday2274

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 March 1850
Source of text:
UB MS NS 389
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1309

From:
Abraham Clapham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 161: 150
Summary:

Results of crosses in Phlox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1306F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
3 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Antiquariat Inlibris (dealers)
Summary:

Explains that he is working on recent and fossil Cirripedia, and asks if WD can aid him with specimens of Roemer’s Pollicipes species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
3 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has lost a good many days and will need another fortnight to finish the pedunculate fossil cirripedes. The Palaeontographical Society will publish the fossil species. "If I was but better in health, I shd work quicker."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Lardner Woodd
Date:
4 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 148: 375
Summary:

Comments on paper by CHLW.

Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.

"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.

Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
21 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]

Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.

Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2358

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.230
Summary:

Glad JH received gelatine paper. Discusses magnetic experiments at Toronto and Hobarton. Discusses R.S.L. committees and preparation of instruments for Arctic expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2359

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.231
Summary:

Hypothesizes that annual variation of Dip and Total Force at Toronto may be caused by greater proximity of earth and sun. Discusses annual variations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4577

From:
Frederick Pollock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.174
Summary:

Announces R.S.L. committee meeting concerning a government grant. Invites JH to dinner after the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7573

From:
Frédéric Petit
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1850]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.90; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a book [Cape Results?] made to the observatory at Toulouse. Comments favorably on the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel46

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.372.219
Summary:

Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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