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DCP-LETT-573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 July [1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A5–6
Summary:

Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-574

From:
Jean-Charles Léonard de Sismondi; Jessie Allen; Jessie de Sismondi
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 July 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 175
Summary:

Sismondi’s appreciation of CD’s Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-575

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 July 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076)
Summary:

Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000642

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
JD Roberton, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
2 July 1840
Source of text:
MM/11/146, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000643

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
unknown
Date:
3 July 1840
Source of text:
MM/11/147, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001106

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Herschel
Date:
2 July 1840
Source of text:
MM/16/143, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001107

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Herschel
Date:
20 July 1840
Source of text:
MM/16/144, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1298

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
6 July 1840
Source of text:
RI MS G F6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1299

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
14 July 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1299a

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
23 July 1840
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.93-108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1300

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alexander Dallas Bache
Date:
28 July 1840
Source of text:
APS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1301

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
29 July 1840
Source of text:
J.M. and Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1302

From:
John Dalton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 July 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1303

From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 July 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I104a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1304

From:
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 July 1840
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1121

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
18 July 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-964

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
July 15 1840
Source of text:
Duke University Library, Rubenstein Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel101

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[6 July 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.239
Summary:

Comments on a proposed request for a government grant to establish a magnetic and meteorological institute.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10441

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.319
Summary:

Drawing attention to his prediction of the storms of 1838 and 1839.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1068

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Spencer J. A.] Compton
Date:
[8 July 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.6
Summary:

The Physical [?] Committee is meeting the next day to deal with the question of establishing a magnetic and meteorological observatory. JH [Chair of the Physical Committee?] cannot attend the meeting and sends his supportive, but cautioning, comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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