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DCP-LETT-534

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 180
Summary:

Praises CD’s Journal of researches and comments on some of CD’s observations and conclusions. Considers volcanic activity and its effect on past climate and changes in climate over time. Discusses glacial phenomena. Believes the climate of the coast of Peru is modified by cold sea-currents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000638

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
J F W Herschel
Date:
7 September 1839
Source of text:
MM/11/142, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1203

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John David Roberton
Date:
2 September 1839
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1204

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
2 September 1839
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1205

From:
William Wyon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 September 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I014
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1206

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Cosmo Melvill
Date:
5 September 1839
Source of text:
India Office Library and Records MS L/MIL/5/413 Collection 313, f.305-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1207

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
5 September 1839
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1207a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Cock
Date:
10 September 1839
Source of text:
GCA MS John Cowie Collection, 705c
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1208

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Gravatt
Date:
16 September 1839
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 21, f.77
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1209

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
18 September 1839
Source of text:
SAU MS JDF 1839/41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1210

From:
Robert Fitzroy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 September 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1211

From:
William Yarrell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 September 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/1/15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1212

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
24 September 1839
Source of text:
UB MS NS 334
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1133

From:
J. E. Bowman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 September 1839
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel1066

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mr. Smith?]
Date:
[5 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.5.17
Summary:

Is very insistent that JH receive clear title to Collingwood, with no encumbrances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11020

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.362
Summary:

Whewell and RJ plan to visit South Wales and would like to stop at Slough en route.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12037

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.400
Summary:

The Times has published an attack on the B.A.A.S. and stated that JH has left the B.A.A.S. Would JH write to the Times to contradict this statement. RM is to continue as General Secretary for a further year. [Note from Herschel to see Times of yesterday (3-3-39).]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12211

From:
George Thomas Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.67
Summary:

Would JH communicate with C. H. Phipps (1st Marquis of Normanby) to speed up the dispatch of the four teachers selected for the Cape educational system. Frontier is quiet except for some cattle stealing. Safe arrival of GN's daughter in England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12345

From:
Abraham Follett Osler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.202
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet containing an account of AO's anemometer, also an account of the great storm of January last. Comments on his own and William Reid's theories of storms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12346

From:
Frederick A. G. Ouseley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.203
Summary:

Is delighted with the photogenic apparatus JH has sent; it will afford him great amusement. Anxiously awaits some sunshine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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