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DCP-LETT-1239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:

Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.

CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.

CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Apr [1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73a)
Summary:

Continues to improve, but water-cure has produced "indolence and stagnation of mind".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13801

From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 146
Summary:

On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000479

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
14 April 1849
Source of text:
MM/9/59, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2166

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur Watson
Date:
3 April 1849
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2167

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Barchard
Date:
3 April 1849
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2168

From:
William Barchard
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 April 1849
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2169

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 April 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2170

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
26 April 1849
Source of text:
RI MS G F25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2171

From:
Arthur Aikin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1849
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2172

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
27 April 1849
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2173

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Miles
Date:
28 April 1849
Source of text:
Dennis Embleton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2174

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 April 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-338

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 April 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 248
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-339

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 April 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 249
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10777

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.130 & 10.136
Summary:

Is thinking of withdrawing his son from Christ's Hospital owing to his frequent epileptic fits. Should he inform the Prince Consort? Outlines his recent photographic work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10778

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
24 April [1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.131 & 10.136
Summary:

Since writing to JH he has taken medical advice and decided to leave his son at Christ's Hospital for the time being. Gave a lecture at the Royal Institution on Friday evening.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11174

From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.64
Summary:

Looks forward to the new edition of JH's Treatise Astr. Comments on the atmosphere and gases on the surface of the moon. What does JH think of these comments?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11301

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.205
Summary:

Read part of JH's letter to the Institute and Yvon Villarceau also presented his own method. Will see the letter printed in the Comptes rendus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11409

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.320
Summary:

Has just published a small work to remove popular superstitions. Presents a copy to JH as a mark of respect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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