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DCP-LETT-863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 33
Summary:

Returns notes on Confervae.

Has had information from Ehrenberg on organic forms in Atlantic dust.

Thanks for sketch of Galapagos flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-860

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for list of the Bahia Blanca fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4762

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.152 (C: RGO 6.699.232)
Summary:

Giving the plan of the Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel153

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1 May 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.699.234
Summary:

Seems clear that JH's 'falling star' [see JH's 1845-4-29] was the same one reported by a correspondent of GA's as having been seen in Nottingham; in a postscript JH is not so sure.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8590

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Peacock
Date:
[1845]-5
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib.
Summary:

Accepts GP's invitation to visit him at Ely Cathedral after the B.A.A.S. meeting at Cambridge. Asks advice on whether it would be proper for JH to read his address at the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14834

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845-5 or later]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20760
Summary:

Alerts WW, who was coming to visit the Herschels, that scarlet fever has arrived at JH's household. Comments onWW's writings about glacial theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9142

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1845-5]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20764 (C: RS:HS 22.232)
Summary:

Invites Whewells to visit for a luncheon. Thanks WW for and comments on WW's publications on glaciers. Comments on Richard Jones.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000532

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2/14 May 1845
Source of text:
MM/10/56, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1721

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Easton
Date:
2 May 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[2 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.234
Summary:

On the subsuming of one scientific society by another; comments favorably on the Memoirs of the Cambridge University Philosophical Society and asks AD to help fill in JH's missing items.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1722

From:
Francis Markoe
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 May 1845
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP1266

From:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
4 May 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/93/1
Summary:

Adding pupils a few girls at a time, will be making £100 in six months. “Tell Herbert I have seen no Indians and no wild beasts.” We shall see friendly Indians in Alabama. Wildflowers delightful; in nearby woods azaleas, cloves, and jasmine are common.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel4138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[4 May 1845]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Remarks on observation of new comet. Discord in R.A.S. follows Francis Baily's death. C. P. Smyth will leave Cape after being appointed Astronomer Royal to Scotland. Glass for Cape equatorial tested. JH has no success appealing for continuation of Colonial Survey. Southern constellation reform compromised.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-865

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 36–41
Summary:

Discusses the microscopic structure of rock samples from Chile and the Pampas. Describes organic remains found in the samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1724

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Nasmyth
Date:
5 May 1845
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1723

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Terry
Date:
5 May 1845
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, L. Handwriting Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1761

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0631.2
Summary:

Describes testing William Simms's object glass and then gives details of the equatorial mounting GA used; offers to send carpenter to JH to construct mounting so JH can test object glass [diagram].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1726

From:
George Back
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 May 1845
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I124
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1725

From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 May 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8311

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Draper
Date:
[7 May 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.117
Summary:

Critiques JD's paper on plant chemistry, contrasting 'luminous, colorific, calorific, & chemical or photographic' rays. Physics of light. [Letter continues two months later.] JH is done with photography. Has no desire to claim priorities in that field. Entrusts future to JD and others.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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