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Tyndall0003

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
May 18th, 1840.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3184, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of Arts
Date:
13 May [1840-2]
Source of text:
Royal Society of Arts (RSA/PR/MC/104/10/28)
Summary:

Informs correspondent that he wrote to William Walton all that he knew about the guanaco.

Present state of his health prevents his acceptance of invitation to attend the meeting of the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Ellor Taylor]
Date:
[1840 or later]-5-13
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0748.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Thanks for series of portraits of members of Ipswich Museum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1275

From:
Charles Wheatstone
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 May 1840
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001607

From:
Augustus Volney Waller
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
14 May 1840
Source of text:
MM/21/47, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1277

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1840
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1276

From:
William Buckland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1840
Source of text:
Bod MS Eng. Letter d.5, f.216
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10733

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.86
Summary:

Returns the photographic drawings of W. H. Fox Talbot with many thanks. Fears for their permanence. Has produced similar pictures himself acting on bromide of silver with hydrocholoric acid. Has had trouble with his periscope lens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel378

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 May 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.463.70
Summary:

Has a problem with the explanation of interference bands produced by mica being placed between the eye and prism-produced dispersion; the explanation is Baden Powell's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel379

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1840-5-16 or later]
Source of text:
RGO 6.463.76
Summary:

Writes to supply GA with an address for a reply to JH's 1840-5-16.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
16 May 1840
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4697

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.86 (C: RGO 6.463.72)
Summary:

Regarding Prof. Baden Powell's paper on dark bands. Is making catalogues of the moveables of the observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13530

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0760.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Considers paper by [Baden] Powell to be worthless. Sent it to JH today care of Mrs. Stewart.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel380

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.463.77
Summary:

Responds to JH [see JH's 1840-5-16 or later] indicating to what address GA had sent his reply [see GA's 1840-5-17].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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KEMP6

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[8] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2)
Summary:

Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

Herschel2810

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.90
Summary:

Hopes to meet with JH to discuss some data. Announces that at the Newcastle B.A.A.S. meeting, JH, Humphrey Lloyd, and ES were appointed to a subcommittee. Discusses what James Ross will do on his return from the Cape. Announces the possibility of ten new observatories in Russia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel381

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 May 1840]
Source of text:
RGO 6.463.78
Summary:

Thanks GA for the time and trouble GA took in writing about interference bands [see GA's 1840-5-17]; JH's wife, Margaret, is making many visits to the dentist.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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KEMP7

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 May 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/3)
Summary:

The bearer of the letter, Thomas Smibert, is a friend of RC and his brother, William Chambers. RC would like WK to show him the raised beaches.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

Herschel4698

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.87 (C: RGO 6.463.80)
Summary:

Concerning prism refraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1279

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
20 May 1840
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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