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DCP-LETT-5

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 [Mar 1823]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 5
Summary:

More suggestions for the laboratory, including some experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1823
Source of text:
DAR 204: 6
Summary:

Discusses plans for CD to visit Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. June 1823]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 1
Summary:

Writes, while visiting the Wedgwoods at Maer and Parkfields, to thank CD for his "entertaining letter".

She misses him and the laboratory.

Asks "how Mineralogy, Botany, Chemistry and Entomology go on".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001646

From:
Davies Gilbert
To:
William Henry Barlow
Date:
23 March 1823
Source of text:
MM/21/91, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001792

From:
unknown
To:
Richard Phillips, Baldwin Cradock & Joys, Paternoster Row
Date:
30 April 1823
Source of text:
MM/25/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE172

From:
Maria Edgeworth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
17 Apr 1823
Source of text:
MSE 1 / 160, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE173

From:
Maria Edgeworth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 Oct 1823
Source of text:
MSE 1 / 162, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE174

From:
Maria Edgeworth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
6 Nov 1823
Source of text:
MSE 1 / 164, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE59

From:
Jean-Baptiste Biot
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
18 Mar 1823
Source of text:
MSB 8 /333, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10253

From:
W. Herschel Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.139
Summary:

Hoping that JH's goodness will help WG out of difficulty.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10604

From:
Thomas W. Hornbuckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.483
Summary:

Answers to his queries regarding fees at Cambridge and amount of living allowance necessary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11213

From:
Pierre Simon Laplace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.102
Summary:

Sending Part XI of his own Mécanique céleste. Comments on this work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11332

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.240
Summary:

Has requested the government to forward payment for the clock. Regarding variations in the observations of F. W. Bessel, John Pond, etc. Has high opinion of Bessel's work. Has been sending books for Thomas Catton, but he never replies. How is Greenwich Observatory heated? Some observatories have troubles with dampness. Recommends book by K. W. Feuerbach.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11333

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.241
Summary:

Has received parcel from N. M. Rothschild. Hopes money for the Robert Molyneux clock will soon arrive. Encloses some items for him in Thomas Catton's parcel. Please accept Analytical Geometry. Hopes JL's two volumes on astronomy will be translated into English, and encloses copy of additions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11334

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.242
Summary:

Thanks for books. Presumes Robert Molyneux has received payment for clock; this is a very good instrument, much better than [Thomas?] Young's. Encloses a work of his own, which he would like to see in the Transactions of the R.A.S. Sends propositions by a young Bavarian named K. W. Feuerbach.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11335

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.243
Summary:

Has doubtless received his Treatise on the Corrections of the Equatorials. Col. L. A. Fallon, head of the Austrian Survey, would like a Robert Molyneux clock. Can JH arrange to order one and send it via H. C. Schumacher. Encloses some notes on practical astronomy, which may be useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11336

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.244
Summary:

New Observatory is being planned on the lines of the new one being built at Obo in Finland. Would like an open letter from JH on the requirements for an observatory. Is there any news of the clock for [L. A.?] Fallon?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11496

From:
Francis Lunn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 September [1823?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.409
Summary:

Had difficulty with actinometer observations on Etna, but obtained a few. Has just obtained a living in Somerset. Is working for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana at the moment but hopes to make a set of actinometer observations soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11574

From:
Wilson Lowry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.492
Summary:

JH's geological specimen is a piece of granular quartz, found in great quantities in Berks, Wilts, and Herts. JH promised to show him some of the garnets found by [J. S.?] Henslow in Anglesea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1229

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Marc Seguin
Date:
[22 June 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.61
Summary:

Will send MS's communication about the theory of caloric to some scientific journals, rather than the Astronomical Society, where it would be inappropriate. Comments on caloric theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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