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DCP-LETT-576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
[c. 15 Aug 1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:

Questions GNS on remains found in caves on Caldy Island. [CD’s pencilled queries sent via Frances Allen].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-577

From:
Frances (Fanny) Allen
To:
Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:
19 Aug [1840]
Source of text:
Tenby Museum
Summary:

Forwards list of questions from CD relating to GNS’s paper on Caldy [see 576].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000520

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
10/22 August 1840
Source of text:
MM/10/44, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1305

From:
Heinrich Rose
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 August 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I085a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1306

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Burton
Date:
12 August 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 A13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1307

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Rowland Hill
Date:
22 August 1840
Source of text:
University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library MS Chemists' Club Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1308

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Saxton
Date:
24 August 1840
Source of text:
Hunt MS RH 632
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1309

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Crawfurd
Date:
24 August 1840
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1310

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Finlay Weir Johnston
Date:
28 August 1840
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1310a

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
28 August 1840
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.109-29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1132

From:
Robert Brown
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 August 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10735

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.88
Summary:

Is grateful for the suggested emendations to his paper. Comments on the action of iodine on silver and its oxide. When can he expect publication of his paper? Has noted a peculiar property in the calorific rays when copying engravings. Encloses some Daguerreotype papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11022

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.364
Summary:

Is not well and is planning a holiday. Will be in the vicinity of Hawkhurst next Saturday and would like to visit JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11591

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[14 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.64
Summary:

G. B. Airy needs HL to send him the information used to set up colonial magnetic observatories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12078

From:
John Murray [Sr.?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.445
Summary:

Sending check and a note from the editor of the Quarterly Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1235

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.68
Summary:

Thanks RH for a sample of Daguerreotype paper. Comments on some aspects of the action of 'thermic' rays and 'chemical' rays in photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12356

From:
Robert Treat Paine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.213
Summary:

Magnetic observations have been made regularly for a year and a half at the college at Cambridge by W. C. Bond. After JH's letter another set of instruments has been obtained to make another series of observations. Money from Hugh Smithson has been loaned to Arkansas. Comments on red auroral light seen. With the more frequent steamship service now hopes for quicker communications from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12572

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Thomas Napier
Date:
1840-[8-14 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.75
Summary:

Is trying to reduce the ill feeling between GN and Andries Stockenström relating to the governing of the Cape colony; JH feels hampered by limited information.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel167

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.693.94
Summary:

Asks for JH's help in trying to determine the likely cost of making magnetic observations at Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel168

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[14 August 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.693.96
Summary:

Provides information [see GA's 1840-8-13] based on equipping the Breslau Observatory; also comments on lawyers, meteor showers, and photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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