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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 July 1859
Source of text:
UB MS NS 449
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lock Eastlake
Date:
25 July 1859
Source of text:
NG MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Maria Drummond
Date:
29 July 1859
Source of text:
Jeff Weber
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
15 July 1859
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
July 1859
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 338
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
H. C. Watson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 338
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 289
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 196
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 87(i) & (ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 July 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 July 1859?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Date:
[31 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.309 & 23.268
Summary:

Acknowledges the proof sheets of the new edition of the Physical Geography of the Sea. Will read them with the attention they deserve. Does not at present agree with the theories of MM.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

A. D. Bache reports that self-recording instruments are installed at Washington observatory and ready to begin observations. ES is making field observations to confirm changes in magnetic lines in England since ES's 1837 survey. [JH annotation: Summary of Bache's letter. Joint survey by Smithsonian Institution and U.S. Coast Survey will begin when Bache receives full instructions from Sabine.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Does JH wish to alter ES's reply to A. D. Bache? Origins of names for American rivers. Hopes JH is well enough to accept the invitation of Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 July 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.7; Reel 1093
Summary:

Replied to J. A. da Silva that Kew Observatory would gladly train Portuguese observers and superintend manufacture of instruments, but that ES could not speak for English government. [JH annotation: Summary of letter from da Silva, director of meteorological observatory in Lisbon, requesting training for Portuguese observers at Kew, British influence on Portuguese government to join magnetic survey, and advice on instruments.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[24 July 1859]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.18
Summary:

Sees no need for changes to the plates for Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[17 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.266
Summary:

Discusses desirability of middle latitude stations in North America. Impressed by the work of [A. D.] Bache.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Woodbine Parish
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.135
Summary:

Sends newspaper article about the meteor fall in Oswego County. Compares the account to a meteorite that fell in the Santiago Plains of Chile. Discusses authenticity of suspected meteorite specimens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.309
Summary:

Thanks for his interesting communication to the Photographic News and for the spectra. Gives details of his own photographic experiments with Iodide of silver.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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