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From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Joseph Mendoza y Rios
Date:
3 March 1814
Source of text:
MM/8/75, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Joseph Banks
Date:
14 December 1814
Source of text:
MM/12/156, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
14 April 1814
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 123-6.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Abbott
Date:
1 May and 24 July 1814
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
1 July 1814
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 143-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert G. Abbott
Date:
6 August 1814
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
19 August 1814
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 149-52.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Abbott
Date:
6 September 1814
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
10 November 1814
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 165-9.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Benjamin Abbott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 and 22 Nov 1814
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Abbott
Date:
26 and 30 Nov 1814
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Elizabeth Gray
Date:
21 and 24 Dec 1814
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 172-4.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Benjamin Abbott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 and 26 Dec 1814
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
29 December 1814
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 175-7.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[26 January 1814]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0047; Reel 1054
Summary:

Chemical news: decomposition of 'sulphuret of carbon' by J. J. Berzelius and Alexander Marcet. Analysis of 'azotane' and discovery of 'iode' by Humphry Davy. Congratulations on results of CB's examination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[4 August 1814]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0048; Reel 1054
Summary:

Feigned reproach for CB's return to 'the Analytics.' Inquires about CB's 'Devonshire Ghost at Chudleigh.' Results of JH's chemistry experiments. Derides scientists who promote theory of 'akasch' as the one and only form of matter. Met Alexander Marcet in Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[20 September 1814]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.30 (C: RS:HS 20.19 & TxU:H/L-0049.1; Reel 1054)
Summary:

Gratitude for CB's friendship. Chemical supplies and instruments. Describes synthesis of 'Sulphurane' [S2Cl2] and other experiments. Theories of combustion and acids. [Letter continued on 1813-9-21:] JH avidly studying law, against father's wishes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[25 October 1814]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0049.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

CB has founded 'a calculus totally new and immensely powerful.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Herschel
Date:
[1814-2?]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0546.1; Reel 1053
Summary:

Working in law office of [F. W.?] Sanders. Attended R.S.L. last night. T. W. Hornbuckle offered JH position as subtutor at St. John's College, but JH declined. Describes paper on minerals that JH submitted through E. D. Clarke to Geological Society. Charles Babbage just made creative mathematical discovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1814-11
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0640; Reel 1089
Summary:

Finds no experimental evidence connecting index of capillary action to index of refraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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