From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 18
Summary:
Family news from Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 19
Summary:
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 Mar [1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57)
Summary:
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[31 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56)
Summary:
Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/176, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
7 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
21 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177A, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
11 March 1842
Source of text:
GL MS 30108A/1, p.177-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
12 March 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
15 March 1842
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
David Brewster
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1842
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
mid March 1842
Source of text:
Paul Heier
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Long
Date:
21 March 1842
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
P. M. Roget
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1842
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-62:241
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.376
Summary:
Has just confirmed the Hawkhurst apportionment; comments on this. Encloses a copy of the notice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.125
Summary:
Sending a description of the observatory he has erected, containing an equatorially mounted Newtonian reflector. Has high opinion of its efficiency. Has detected a sixth star near the trapezium of Orionis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.114
Summary:
Comments on WL's finding a sixth star in the trapezium of Orion [see WL's 1842-3-10]; lists other catalogues that identify that star.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.131
Summary:
Received JH's constellation reform paper. Reports on triangulation at Zwartland and observations of possible variable stars. Obelisk at Feldhausen erected; relates controversies over the site.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.402
Summary:
Sends a memoir he has scribbled off for next Wednesday's meeting. Would like JH's advice on several points.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.403
Summary:
Many thanks for JH's explanations, which gave satisfaction to the geologists. Gives two queries of his own for which he would like clarification. Can they print JH's Alpine phenomena memoir?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project