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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jonathan Pereira
Date:
28 February 1838
Source of text:
RCS MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Dionysius Lardner
Date:
[28 February 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.124 (C: RS:HS 21.243)
Summary:
Due to his impending departure from the Cape he has had little opportunity of seeing DL's son George. Does not think he will be in a position to write a popular article on his work in the Southern Hemisphere yet awhile. Several errors in his Treatise Astr., which he would like to correct.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Samuel Stratford
Date:
[28 February 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.88 (C: RS:HS 21.242)
Summary:
JH, in preparing to leave Cape, thanks WS for having sent Nautical Almanacs to him there. Discusses motions of a comet appearing to move whimsically, the periodical star alpha Hydrae, other stars, and the re-discovery of Saturn's sixth satellite.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
1] March [1838
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Asks TM to set JH's chronometer and barometer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Snow Harris
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 March 1838
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Grant
Date:
[6 March 1838]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
[Writing to Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg, British Secretary of State for the Colonies], JH advises on such aspects as the administration, staffing, and the form and content of the instruction at the newly established Government Free Schools at the Cape.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[6 March 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0423; Reel 1055
Summary:
Packing to leave Cape. Desires only furnished lodgings, not new house, for month of May in London. [Letter continues 6 May 1838 on board Windsor :] Becalmed off France. Expect to land in Portsmouth and visit Anstey on way to London.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Yelloly
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 March 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
1838-3[-7]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.244
Summary:
Final arrangements before JH and family depart for England.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Fairbairn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.151
Summary:
JH is leaving the Cape at an unfortunate time as the Governor has to rely on the support of an unsympathetic party. Comments on the political situation at the Cape. The Herschels have done much good for the Cape since their residence there.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Buckland
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
9 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47)
Summary:
Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bastard James
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 10 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 43
Summary:
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Hasledine Pepys
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 March 1838
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I152
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1838
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[18 March 1838]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/14
Summary:
Thanks for specimens of [light] 'sensitive paper.' Praises it. JH has handed over all his specimens of photography to R.S.L. Recommends a paper by the chemist Henri Regnault.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
20 March 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.399
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
20 Mar 1838
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 94, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
22 March 1838
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Jardine
Date:
23 and 26 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library DK/6.20/138
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A1–2
Summary:
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
