From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 101
Summary:
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
4 July [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
21 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 383
Summary:
Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 July 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/47)
Summary:
Thanks for the measurements of the intermediate Eildon terraces.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
James Tod
To:
William Kemp
Date:
30 Jul 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/48)
Summary:
Will lay WK’s paper on the economising of fuel in gas works before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts when it meets the following winter.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1847
Source of text:
Phil.Mag., 1847, 31: 196-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomson
Date:
2 July 1847
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7342, F33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
2 July 1847
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 July 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Nasmyth
Date:
15 July 1847
Source of text:
UP CHOC MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lord Auckland
Date:
29 July 1847
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 233-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Syme
Date:
30 July 1847
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Shaw Lefevre
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 July 1847
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
The Master & Fellows of Trinity College
Date:
2 July 1847
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Add. MSS.c.92: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Hymers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.222
Summary:
Has placed Mr. Yorke's room at JH's disposal; gives times of meals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 July 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.380
Summary:
Threatened at Cambridge with [C. E.?] Law and Mr. Fielding. Wishes JH would write a letter of support for [J. G. Shaw-?] Lefevre. Is short of helpers but not overworked. William Empson is anxious for a review of Kosmos. Goes on Thursday to vote for [Henry?] Goul[d]burn and Lefevre.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Date:
1847-7-15 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.30
Summary:
Responds to CS's [see CS's 1847-7-14] request for observations of Gamma Scorpii as a double star. JH comments on CS having omitted J. C. Adams from the list of Neptune discoverers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Josiah Forshall
Date:
[14 July 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.63
Summary:
Again writes [see JH's 1847-6-9] about the heating system at the British Museum.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project