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DCP-LETT-578F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[after 1 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:

Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
1 Dec 1840
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57)
Summary:

Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
[22 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41(z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:

Illness has long delayed CD’s thanks for WCR’s meteorological pamphlets and geological reports. Mentions a reference to whirlwinds leaving rotary patterns in desert sand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000552

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 December 1840
Source of text:
MM/10/78, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000645

From:
East India Company, East India House
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
16 December 1840
Source of text:
MM/11/151, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000646

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
20 December 1840
Source of text:
MM/11/152, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1326

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dominique François Jean Arago
Date:
3 December 1840
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1326a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Pollard Espy
Date:
3 December 1840
Source of text:
YUL MS OSB. 5138
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1327

From:
William Allen
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 December 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I006
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1328

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Joseph Griffin
Date:
8 December 1840
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1329

From:
Johann Conrad Fischer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 December 1840
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1330

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 December 1840
Source of text:
UB MS NS 338
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1331

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
23 December 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1332

From:
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 December 1840
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I134
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1333

From:
Macedonio Melloni
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 December 1840
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

HENSLOW-1031

From:
Adoplphe-Théodore Brongniart
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 December 1840
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms fr-01377
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel11024

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.366
Summary:

Has just returned from Ely, where George Peacock is very happy and prosperous. Gives news of other scientific friends. Hawkhurst tithes have been peaceably settled.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1148

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1840-12?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.5
Summary:

Has not had time to work on the constellations paper because of interference due to tithe surveys and land re-assessments, which JH fears may involve a lawsuit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12594

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
S. I. Osborne
Date:
[1 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.7
Summary:

About the desirability of closing a restricted public footpath across JH's property at Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2062

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Raper
Date:
[13 December 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.304 (C: RS:HS 22.71)
Summary:

Received HR's book on navigation. Says it will be very useful. Makes several remarks and objections concerning the list of principal fixed stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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