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From:
Amedeo Avogadro
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 January 1845
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Jan 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 26
Summary:
Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].
Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
1845-1[?]-22
Source of text:
St. Andrews 7
Summary:
Requests information about actinometers in JF's possession, and provides further information regarding their use.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Hamilton Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1845
Source of text:
DAR 177: 188 (fragile)
Summary:
Reports on an ancient town on Ascension, which is now at sea-level and approachable only by boat.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
23 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43)
Summary:
Would like sketch returned [see 775].
Would be particularly thankful for result of CGE’s observations on earth of Pampas.
Asks that Ernst Dieffenbach return copperplate and woodcuts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.110
Summary:
Has received the communication and the proof, and returned the latter to the printer. Found a section had been omitted but cannot trace the manuscript at present.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hamilton Smith
Date:
26 Jan [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.40)
Summary:
Discusses extract sent by CHS dealing with island of Pouynipéte. Agrees account of island by Lloghtsky [Johann Lhotsky] is suspect.
Comments on view that former migration of animals, plants, and man was by continental extensions now submerged.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Date:
27 January 1845
Source of text:
NLNZ MS G.A. Mantell, Autographs vol.2, p.31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Ker Reid
Date:
27 January 1845
Source of text:
Northumberland Record Office MS ZAN M12 / D4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
28 January 1845
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1845]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:
Will forward JH's paper [',Amórfwta ...,' R.S.P.T. (1845), 143-53] to the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
B. Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.8
Summary:
Is now in a position to pay to JH Francis Baily's legacy and would be glad to know in which way JH would like it paid.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Phillip Evans
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13a/73-74, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1845]
Source of text:
JHS 4.20
Summary:
Describes how JH arranged for an opening [in the Indian Civil Service] for JH's son William James at the time when he will be the proper age [see JH's 1845-1-31].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1845]
Source of text:
JHS 4.21
Summary:
Speaks of JH's visits on the previous day; later this day, JH is to visit Mr. Plowden about a position for son William James.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
31 January 1845
Source of text:
JDH/2/8 f.4-5, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10-233
Summary:
Has invited Charles Grant (Baron Glenelg) to breakfast tomorrow; will JH join them?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 165–6
Summary:
Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.
Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
B. Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.9
Summary:
Sends the printed receipt for £1,000 being the amount of Francis Baily's legacy. Please sign and send it to his own bankers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0521.1; Reel 1093
Summary:
Observations from H.E.I.C. stations were supposed to be sent to foreign secretary of R.S.L. Prospects for persuading H.E.I.C. to reduce and publish these. Best methods of publication. Toronto volume should be available next week. Report by W. R. Birt was delayed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project