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SOMERVILLE194

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
?? Aug 1834
Source of text:
MSF1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE609

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
6 Aug 1834
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 72, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
9–12 Aug 1834
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

Thanks for her letter of March, which gave him his first explanation of the interest in the [Megatherium] head he had sent.

Wants E. A. Darwin to tell William Clift not to remove numbers or markers on any specimens. The British Museum has first claim on any of his specimens; CD cannot at present say where any should go.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE430

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
12 Aug 1834
Source of text:
S.293, JWL, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel11688

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
12] August [1834
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.166
Summary:

Discusses JH's recent observations of Gamma Virginis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE372

From:
Francis Jeffrey
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 Aug 1834
Source of text:
MSJ 1 / 20, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel11689

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.53
Summary:

Thanks for the acorns; will put them into the ground instantly. Received dispatches from the Admiralty yesterday; also a bag from Bedford. Cannot find the Greenwich Observations for 1830 in the Observatory Library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5996

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.122
Summary:

R.A.S. has been allocated rooms at Somerset House. The James South affair has been submitted to referees. Has discovered a large collection of John Flamsteed's papers at the Greenwich Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE411

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
William Somerville
Date:
18 Aug 1834
Source of text:
MSL 5 / 121, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel3052

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.207
Summary:

Has JH's memoir on elliptical orbits of Saturn. Asks for JH's indulgence with lack of astronomy in annals. AQ has no big instruments. Has planted thermometers for experiments. Finally received transit instrument from [H. P.] Gambey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3900

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
25] August [1834
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Predicting poor weather, JH advises TM not to go to the Grove tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE412

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
?
Date:
26 Aug 1834
Source of text:
MSL 5 / 123, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-255

From:
Thomas Sutcliffe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Aug – 5 Sept 1834]
Source of text:
DAR 35: 405
Summary:

Gives a map of part of Chile between Santiago and San Fernando. Suggests places and people that CD might profitably visit [en route].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[28 Aug 1834]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 115
Summary:

Recounts his trip [from Valparaiso] to Santiago. His meeting with Claude Gay, Thomas Sutcliffe, and others. Geology of tour uninteresting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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