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DCP-LETT-4761

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 61
Summary:

Would like his fowl skulls back.

Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000920

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
19 February 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/195, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000921

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
21 February 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/196, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday4429

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4430

From:
James Dickson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4431

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
15 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4432

From:
James Dickson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10268

From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.152
Summary:

Has sent a collection of his own communications for JH via the Foreign Secretary of the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10512

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.389
Summary:

JH's letter went to the old address, which accounts for the delay. Regarding his query, gives date of the conjunction of the planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10848

From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.199
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Has no copy of JH's Cape Observations so cannot refer to them. Comments on articles on telescopes by JH; they do not lead him to adopt the arrangement he adverted to 10 years ago. Regarding priorities in discoveries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11137

From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.25
Summary:

Thanks for further translations from JH and could HK have an extra copy for a dear friend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11138

From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.26
Summary:

Thoughts on translation of literature, with comments specifically on JH's Iliad translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11428

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.339
Summary:

Encloses a paper on a hail and snow storm, which hand over to the British Meteorological Society when he has read it. Would JH request the R.S.L. Secretary to re-suspend his certificate as he understands he has a good chance of being elected this year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11995

From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1864}-2-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.357
Summary:

Regarding JH's article in Good Words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12244

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.101
Summary:

The contents of JH's note has not surprised him. Encloses report of the trial for the better understanding of JH. Will be at Upton in a day or so.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12891

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[7 February 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0303; Reel 1054
Summary:

Asserts that a process for obtaining 'Turnbull's blue' recently published in PN was discovered and published in 1842 by JH. Adds a second case in which JH anticipated another author's result.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13880

From:
George Alexander Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0227; Reel 1087
Summary:

Committee to reexamine Parliamentary standards of length and measure will meet on 11 Feb. in office of comptroller-general of Exchequer [Thomas Spring-Rice]. If committee desires to compare three copies of Standards, those copies will be brought to Exchequer office.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1419

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.54
Summary:

Discusses printing of JH's catalogue of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1420

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.55
Summary:

Sends R.S.L. Council's formal acknowledgement of star catalogue manuscript [see JH's 1863-12-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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