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DCP-LETT-661

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Maclaren
Date:
[c. Feb 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A94v
Summary:

[Written on CD’s annotated copy of a pamphlet reprint of CM’s review of Coral reefs.] CD asks CM to return the pamphlet to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-662A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
Feb 1843
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1466

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
2 February 1843
Source of text:
SM MS 350/1, f.9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1467

From:
William Gregory
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 February 1843
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1468

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 February 1843
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1469

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jonathan Poulter
Date:
14 February 1843
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1470

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
18 February 1843
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 175-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1471

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
18 February 1843
Source of text:
UB MS NS 349
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1472

From:
Charles Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 February 1843
Source of text:
RI MS ****
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1473

From:
George Neale
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 February 1843
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/1/08
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1474

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Kymet
Date:
24 February 1843
Source of text:
SL MS Crocker 13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10210

From:
Christian Ludwig Gerling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.96
Summary:

A note accompanying some papers on the geodesic work carried out in Germany.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10746

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.98
Summary:

Has been reading JH's communication to the P.M. [on solar spectrum] and wishes to point out that RH was the first to carry out those experiments, which are recounted in the P.M. for 1840.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12200

From:
G. W. Müller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.57
Summary:

Reports on GM's health and immediate travel plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12328

From:
William O'Shaughnessy Brooke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.185
Summary:

Has ventured on the risks of an election to the R.S.L. and would like JH's support and influence with those on the Council. Was prevented from visiting Dover. Sails for Canada on 4 Mar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14329

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0491; Reel 1093
Summary:

Extract from observations of 70 Ophiuchi by F. W. Bessel. Results agree with WS's measurements by different method and increase WS's confidence. Hopes for more information on Gamma Virginis before finalizing WS's manuscript.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1674

From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.160
Summary:

Describes experiments in the electrochemical decomposition of metallic salts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2280

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.151
Summary:

Sent JH's letter concerning actinometers to all observatories. [Johann] Lamont must be informed of recent work. ES comparing fluctuations of direction and force at Toronto and Van Diemen's Land. Mentions [G. B.] Airy and air currents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3391

From:
Benjamin Silliman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.205
Summary:

Thanks JH for favorable comments on BS's biography of [Charles?] Mason. Has been given part of an unusual meteorite fallen in the Cape. If JH has a piece of it, hopes to obtain JH's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3810

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 15.17 (C: RS:HS 22.147)
Summary:

Clarification of priority to the prismatic analysis of the Daguerreotype photograph; comments on the location of a limiting diaphragm in a camera obscura.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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