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DCP-LETT-1456

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 2
Summary:

Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Oct 1851
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 1)
Summary:

Testimonial for THH’s application for Chair in Natural History at Toronto.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
16 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks DS for writing about his research on foliation and cleavage. Discusses nature of slate and metamorphic schists.

Makes suggestions for the paper DS is preparing for the Royal Society and raises questions for his consideration; CD hopes he can attend the Society meeting when the paper is read ["On foliation and cleavage of Scotland", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
16 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Thanks him for specimens of Xenobalanus. Discusses systematic relations of the genus.

Comments on paper by J. T. Reinhardt ["Om slaegten Lithotryas", Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn 2 (1850): 1–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1459F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hilton
Date:
25 Oct [1851?]
Source of text:
Stowe Collection, Stowe School Library (tipped into Living Cirripedia (1851); STO 5/45)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of Cirripedia specimens from the Northern Atlantic, but has seen so many that he does not need more.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2466

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Hawkins
Date:
11 October 1851
Source of text:
BM DWAA MS Correspondence 1826-1860, volume 5, 1722
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2467

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
14 October 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D05
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2468

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 October 1851
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2469

From:
Joseph Toynbee
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 October 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2470

From:
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 October 1851
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.127
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2471

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
27 October 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D06
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2472

From:
Prince Albert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 October 1851
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.120
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1091

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
2 October 1851
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10810

From:
William Snow Harris
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.163
Summary:

Sends a new edition of his own work on electricity. Has been studying the manuscripts of Henry Cavendish and thinks they should be published. JH in one of his articles attributes an invention to C. F. Gauss, whereas WH suggested the idea seven years before Gauss.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[30 October 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0071; Reel 1054
Summary:

Curiosity about quill-like 'pen' sent to JH's son John by MB. Glad that MB moved to Brighton for medical care.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12923

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Rich
Date:
[10 October 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0337
Summary:

Plans to obtain pension for G. F. G. Mathison. Mathison feels moral duty to [Richard] Lynn, Head Melter to Mathison, who has no legal claim to compensation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13064

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[1851-10-23 or later
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0479.3; Reel 1055
Summary:

Difficulties in pay system for moneyers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13079

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[4 October 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0481.10; Reel 1055
Summary:

Forwards, with JH's approval, G. F. G. Mathison's claim for compensation due to termination of office of Melter and Refiner at Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13080

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[13 October 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0481.11; Reel 1055
Summary:

Lists wages for assistant workers in Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13081

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles [Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[25 October 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0481.12; Reel 1055
Summary:

JH and H. D. Harness were deeply gratified by CT's note of [24 Oct.].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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