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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

Family financial matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 28–30
Summary:

Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].

Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 6
Summary:

Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
23 May [1844]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1844
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: B1–2
Summary:

[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edwin Sidney and admission
Date:
1 May 1844
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Peter Boileau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 May 1844
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur Aikin
Date:
6 May 1844
Source of text:
BL RP 6047
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Maria Edgeworth
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 May 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 May 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Warington
Date:
14 May 1844
Source of text:
Rothamsted Experimental Station, Gilbert Papers G108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Joseph Antione Ferdinand Plateau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
Date:
20 May 1844
Source of text:
Neils Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics, MS MP83
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 May 1844
Source of text:
RGO 6/8, f.616
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 May 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 361
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
30 May 1844
Source of text:
RGO 6/8, f.617
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 May 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 362
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
21 May 1844
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.110
Summary:

Charles Lemon has communicated to him the result of an application made by JH to Prince Albert on behalf of one of RH's children. Is deeply grateful for his assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.112
Summary:

Sends a copy of G. R. Anson's letter to Charles Lemon regarding a scholarship for one of RH's children. Is deeply grateful to JH for his nomination and support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project