From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/209, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
13 December 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/210, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
29 December 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/211, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
A. J. Simpson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.208
Summary:
Requests financial assistance in building a new church in JH's parish.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.456
Summary:
Eyesight is failing. Discusses William Whewell's death and pays him tribute. Says Professor [W. H.] Thompson will replace Whewell.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 June 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.457
Summary:
Has printed a Memorial about Norwich. Discusses this pamphlet. Has been ill. Discusses solitude and says almost none of his friends are still living.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.73
Summary:
The three volumes will be dispatched from the binders next week. Should he require any more he will be charged at trade price. They wish the sales would improve.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Addison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters)
Summary:
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 June 1868]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #48
Summary:
Has worked much on revision of his Physique sociale. Asks for JH's changes to JH's review in Edinburgh Review. Puts translation at JH's disposal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 June 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.267
Summary:
Offers translation of JH's review [of AQ's Lettres sur la théorie des probabilités] to look over. Has been updating his own text to reflect progress.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June? 1868]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #51
Summary:
Apologizes for not writing. Has devoted all his time to Physique sociale. Has just finished last page.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.268
Summary:
Sends first pages of JH's work on theory of probability. Asks for modifications.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.269
Summary:
Thanks for comments on AQ's Sur l'homme moyen. Translator of JH's work is too timid to allow himself to be known, but appreciates JH's compliments. Says practical statistics has progressed whereas philosophical statistics remains stationary.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.270
Summary:
Thanks for proofed pages. Received Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte zu Bonn. Finished determining by electric means the different observational longitudes of Leiden and Brussels.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.271
Summary:
Announces first volume of Physique sociale will appear soon. Discusses humans and law of nature. Says science is neglected in France.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: B78–9
Summary:
LA clarifies his opposition to CD’s views, which does not blind him to the great value of CD’s original researches.
Answers CD’s questions regarding sexual coloration of Amazonian fishes and the protuberances on the head of male Geophagus and Cichla during the spawning season [see Descent, pp. 520, 529].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.472
Summary:
Hopes he can have JH's vote. Would like to add JH's name to his committee, which would not involve him in any work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.473
Summary:
Many thanks. There is no name he prizes more than JH's.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0082; Reel 1087
Summary:
Thanks JH for calling AH's attention to 'mischievous & preposterous metric measure bill.' Will work to defeat it [in Parliament].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0083; Reel 1087
Summary:
Working on rejection of metric bill [in Parliament]. Grateful for information provided by JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project