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DCP-LETT-1500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103)
Summary:

Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].

Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1503

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
18 Feb 1853
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 20
Summary:

Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
J. Hancock 1886, p. 275
Summary:

Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1505

From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1853
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2634

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 February 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2635

From:
Samuel Warren
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 February 1853
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2636

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Francis
Date:
12 February 1853
Source of text:
St Bride Printing Library, Taylor and Francis Collection: author’s letters
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2637

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 February 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2638

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 February 1853
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2639

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16 February 1853
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2640

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 February 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2641

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Gilpin
Date:
20 February 1853
Source of text:
Birmingham Public Library MS 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2642

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
23 February 1853
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.145
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2643

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
24 February 1853
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2644

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 February 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11663

From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.28
Summary:

Comments on the currency. Thinks it would be feasible to share tutors for their children as the name of JH would attract men with superior ability.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12739

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Finch
Date:
[18 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0154; Reel 1054
Summary:

C. E. Trevelyan has confirmed JH's recollection that HF agreed to annual salary of £100 when entering reorganized Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12740

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Finch
Date:
[19 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0155; Reel 1054
Summary:

Formal announcement of HF's nomination by Treasury to fill office of junior clerk in Mint Office vacated by [C. B.] Piers. HF is assigned to W. T. Brande in Coining department.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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