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DCP-LETT-952

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hutton
Date:
[Apr 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.54)
Summary:

Returns copy [of J. Hortic. Soc. Lond.]. Mentions article by William Herbert ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4001

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1846-[4]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

[Written as a family letter.] JH has corrected the first proof sheet of his Cape Results. Reports that Biela's Comet has been found to be a double comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6754

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.72
Summary:

Returns the account of Lord Rosse's telescope with many thanks. Weather has not been good for observations, but gives some observations on the comets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1855a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Robert Haydon
Date:
2 April 1846
Source of text:
HL HU f MS Eng 1331 <(30)>
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1086

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Stuart Mill
Date:
[2 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.32
Summary:

Continues JH's defense of Laplace's writings on probabilities [see JH's 1845-12-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1087

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Stuart Mill
Date:
[3 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.33
Summary:

A note to accompany a working out in convenient form an example of Laplace's probability ideas. [Enclosure not found.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1856

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
4 April 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9150

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.203
Summary:

Planning to edit a volume of hexameter verse translations. Wishes to include JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1857

From:
Benjamin Dann
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 April 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
6 Apr [1846]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

On geological works of Tschudi and Buch.

"My health keeps indifferent & I do not suppose I shall ever be a strong man again: everything fatigues me, & I can work but little at my writing: this summer, however, I shall get out my geology of S. America".

"I found Bronn’s Geschichte, which you recommended me, very useful, for references to facts on variation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1858

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
6 April 1846
Source of text:
RS MS RR 1.221
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1859

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
6 April 1846
Source of text:
DM HS 784
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10769

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.122
Summary:

Has been pursuing his magnetic experiments with crystals and will be publishing a memoir on them. Comments on these experiment. Is there a difference in the mass of the earth at the poles?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1860

From:
Baden Powell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 April 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4126

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.226
Summary:

Describes conditions and instruments at Edinburgh Observatory. Observatory assistant Alexander Wallace works on reduction of Thomas Henderson's transit observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12313

From:
Hans Christian Oersted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.169
Summary:

Sending a German translation of an unfinished work of HO. Regrets that so few people can read the Danish language. Is grateful for JH's papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11977

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.339
Summary:

JH's second letter has convinced him. Has now written a new conclusion to the chapter showing the principles of P. S. Laplace in a new light. Does not think Laplace's example is a fair type. Has already rewritten the chapter on the Doctrine of Chances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3779

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports that Biela's Comet split into two comets; JH has observed it several times. 30-40 pages of JH's Cape Results have been printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1860a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Zephaniah Bell
Date:
9 April 1846
Source of text:
RI MS (tipped in Faraday’s Psalm book)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Apr [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 59
Summary:

Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.

Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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