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DCP-LETT-612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet; Arthur Aikin; George Bellas Greenough
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1841]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (CM1/5)
Summary:

Committee suggests Council resolve to have William Lonsdale pack away non-fossil specimens from S. America and volcanic islands of the Atlantic [signed G. B. Greenough, A. Aiken, C. Darwin, C. J. F. Bunbury].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000652

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
unknown
Date:
15 December 1841
Source of text:
MM/11/159, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000653

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
25 December 1841
Source of text:
MM/11/160, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000654

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
Date:
26 December 1841
Source of text:
MM/11/161, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE36

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Fred Adam
Date:
25 Dec 1841
Source of text:
MSB1 / 261, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday1373

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Pritchard
Date:
21 December 1841
Source of text:
RI MS ****
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1374

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
22 December 1841
Source of text:
BL add MS 37191, f.677
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1375

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Ellis
Date:
22 December 1841
Source of text:
BL add MS 48340, f.38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1376

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Allan Cunningham
Date:
24 December 1841
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1377

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Hare
Date:
24 December 1841
Source of text:
Am.J.Sci., 1842, 42: 291
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1377a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
27 December 1841
Source of text:
Bianchi (1874), 89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1378

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Silk Buckingham
Date:
28 December 1841
Source of text:
NYHS MS Buckingham, James Silk
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4655u

From:
Fifth Lord Dufferin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
After 1841
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4681u

From:
Third Marquis of Lansdowne
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
After 1841
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-315

From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 Dec 1841
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 1a
Summary:

Asks JSH to make contact with Joseph Jukes, ahead of his 1842 expedition to New Guinea, the Torres Straits and Australia, in order to increase his understanding of botany.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel102

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 December 1841]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.265 (C: RGO 6.675.267 inc)
Summary:

Asks the Physical Committee (Chair, JH) of the R.S.L. to note the concurrent disturbances of magnetometers and the appearance of aurora borealis, and to make a long term study of this relationship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10244

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Grey
Date:
[27 December 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.130 (C: RS:HS 22.105 & Auckland Public Library)
Summary:

GG's book [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in the North-West and Western Australia, 2 vols. (London: Boone, 1841)] is creating a sensation in London. Pleased to learn from it of the range of mountains named after JH. Hopes GG will carry out some study into the Aboriginal dialects. Standards of weight and measure should be sent to all Colonies. Important to have a magnetic survey of all colonized and colonizable parts of Australia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel103

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 December 1841]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.268
Summary:

Points out an error in the instructions for magnetic observers provided for the Antarctic expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11032

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 December 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.374
Summary:

Sends some extracts from the Acts. Regarding the enforcement of the rates. To Lady Herschel: Should have let him know when they were in town. Believes Mrs. Jones is going on well at Brighton. Sets out for Cambridge to see William Whewell tomorrow. Hears rooms of Henry VIII have been opened for parties.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1121

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[9 December 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.3
Summary:

Arranges a meeting with CW and Edward Sabine to discuss Kew [magnetic] observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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