From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
28 February 1867
Source of text:
MM/14/207, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1867]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #47
Summary:
Apologizes for not writing sooner. Busy with trip to Italy. Announces intention to dedicate entire next year to his Physique sociale. Thanks JH for his comments on AQ's son's work on temperature. Also grateful for commendation on AQ's history of science. Brings up AQ's son's work on proper motion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.266
Summary:
Discusses coming year. Asks JH how to deal with JH's review [of AQ's Lettres sur la théorie des probabilités]. Talks about his friend [Michel] Chasles. Also about AQ's son. Mentions JH's translation of [J. C. F. von] Schiller's 'Spaziergang.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.154
Summary:
Is pleased to hear his own sons are progressing well. Hopes Caroline (JH's daughter) will soon be able to come out. Is temporarily in charge of the Bombay army, which gives him plenty of work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.470
Summary:
Has arranged for JH to receive a couple of plants of Fitzroya Patagonia. Hopes that the inclement weather has caused no distress.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.471
Summary:
Thanks for the gift of his poem; it has afforded him great pleasure. Is starting on a tour of South Wales and the West Country.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.173
Summary:
Note accompanying a copy of a paper by AS.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 67
Summary:
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 68, 68a
Summary:
Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].
Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 69
Summary:
Has crossed pods of Arabis blepharophylla larger than normal ones.
Sends Telliamed as gift.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 70
Summary:
Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Angelo Secchi
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.417
Summary:
In London for a short time. Wants to meet JH and will come to see him the following day.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Arthur B. Simpson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.147
Summary:
Asking for answers to specific questions in hydrodynamics, which may be related to a future patent application.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Arthur J. Joyce
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.451
Summary:
Outlining a series of experiments based on JH's work on Light.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Henry George Atkinson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 July 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 24-25
Summary:
Need not return Mrs S's letter.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
August von Egloffstein
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 December 1867
Source of text:
RB MSS, MS M200a8, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.390
Summary:
How is he during this spell of cold weather? Gives reason why he resigned from the College. Gives a theorem. Has no news of his own successor at the College.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1867-4-10 [?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.391
Summary:
Has heard a rumor that he is not well. One of his daughters has been recuperating at Hastings. Sends a paradox. Comments on the editing of Isaac Newton's book on Daniel by Benjamin Smith, his nephew. R.S.L. has produced Vol. 1 of the list of scientific papers. Blaise Pascal affair is in a lull.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.392
Summary:
Sends a theorem, which beats Blaise Pascal's by points.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project