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Herschel10069

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.406
Summary:

Family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0501

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
4 July 1831
Source of text:
RS MS MC 1.316
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

L769

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Reynaud
Date:
7 juillet 1831
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 735-736.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

SOMERVILLE250

From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
7 Jul 1831
Source of text:
HS 16.389, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2697

From:
William Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.389
Summary:

Sir James Mackintosh wishes to meet JH. Invites the Herschels to a dinner party for this purpose.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 July 1831]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 41)
Summary:

Poverty keeps him at Shrewsbury.

The Canary scheme still goes, CD is studying Spanish and geology.

Jenyns has started CD on Diptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[11 July 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 1 DAR/1/1/1)
Summary:

Has been learning to use a clinometer.

Has investigated passage and fares for Canaries trip.

Rereading Humboldt.

Asks JSH to thank Jenyns for present of Diptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

Faraday0502

From:
William Vernon Harcourt and John Phillips
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 July 1831
Source of text:
Rep.Brit.Ass., 1831, 18.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8105

From:
John Wallis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.371
Summary:

JW's observations of Jupiter on 15 Apr. 1826, with all satellites hidden. This confirms similar observation by [Samuel] Molyneux quoted in JH's [Treatise Astr.]. Has JH's letter of 29 Aug. 1819 relating to spots on Jupiter's disc. [JH annotation: 'To be added to my Astronomy.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4664

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.49
Summary:

Informs JH that he has published a new edition of his tracts (to turn Cambridge mathematics to physical applications). Wants his permission to use his theory on biaxial crystals. Remarks on David Brewster's theories and experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE251

From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
16 Jul 1831
Source of text:
HS 16.390, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2698

From:
William Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.390
Summary:

Fears JH did not receive dinner invitation because he has not replied. Hopes he will be able to come.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday0503

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Daniel Conybeare
Date:
18 July 1831
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-102A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
[19 July 1831]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

He is "mad about Geology" and plans to ride through Wales in August with a few days at Barmouth.

Some humorous gossip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE11

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
William Somerville
Date:
22 Jul 1831
Source of text:
MSB1 / 233, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel5975

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.100
Summary:

John Brinkley (Bishop of Cloyne) is in town and is to dine with him next week. Hopes JH can join him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday0504

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Percy Drummond
Date:
27 July 1831
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 7, f.59
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11113

From:
V. Joseph
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.450
Summary:

Would like to visit JH at Slough and bring him some communications from J. J. Littrow at Vienna Observatory, where he has been recently visiting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1021

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Walter Forman
Date:
[28 July 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.2.10
Summary:

WF's manuscript, which JH returned with his letter of 1831-6-16, has not been received by WF. JH suggests some possibilities as to what might have happened, and deplores the tone of WF's letters, indicating that this tone causes JH to decline further correspondence on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE164

From:
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
29 Jul 1831
Source of text:
MSD 4 / 134, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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