From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
3 June 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/204, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
18 September 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/205, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
December 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/206, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
A. B. Power
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.186
Summary:
Accepts position at Blackheath Preparatory School.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.454
Summary:
Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
William Sharpey, Atheneum Club
Date:
11 February 1865
Source of text:
MM/22/73, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.260
Summary:
Lists works JH should have received. Asks JH to take another look in his library. Has received more on meteors. Sees no objection to a higher terrestrial atmosphere. Will send Histoire des sciences mathématique et physique chez les belges.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #39 q 39a
Summary:
Lists works sent to JH. Discusses hypothesis concerning meteors and the atmosphere. Mentions his work 'Sur la physique du globe.' Cites Mr. Bravais. Attaches note sent to AQ by Royal Academy of Brussels, listing works JH should have received. Encloses list of errata for the Bulletin de l'académie royale de belgique, ser. 2, 15, No. 6.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.261
Summary:
Sends JH other copies of works not received. Also work on international statistics. Has found out that JH has written an article on probability. Would like to use it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 August 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #31
Summary:
Notes for a letter to JH and son. Intends to discuss the 'phenomenon of October 1854.' Will continue observation of proper motion of stars. Will mention 'savants' who disagree and who agree with his opinions. Means to request that JH continue corresponding.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.262
Summary:
Was in Paris when JH's letter arrived. Will print JH's article. Asks if there are changes to be made. Discusses future project Physique sociale, which will include theory of probability applied to ethics and political science.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
28 April 1865
Source of text:
MM/16/46, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
WR Birt
Date:
21 December 1865
Source of text:
MM/15/62, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 January 1865
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 March [1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.125
Summary:
Requests JH sign R.S.L. certificate attesting to qualifications of H. E. L. Thuillier, AW's deputy in India. Hopes to see [JH's son] John when John returns from India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1865-11-20 or earli
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.126
Summary:
Requests JH sign certificate to R.S.L. attesting to Indian historian J. W. Kaye. Recalls 1861 visit with JH at Greenwich Observatory. Hopes JH's sons are doing well in India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 112
Summary:
Sends specimen of Californian fish that inhabits mountain lakes. The lakes often dry up and the fish have developed legs to enable them to wander in search of water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.228
Summary:
Has kept the petition and will forward it after the meeting. His brother is now in the 16th book of the Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Arthur Morrah
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 July 1865
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 647, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letterbooks of the Secretary for Lands, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
August Petermann
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 March 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a letterpress copy of this letter see Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha. For a published version of the letter see Voigt (1996) p. 65-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project