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DCP-LETT-971

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[May 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 61
Summary:

Interested in sterility of alpine plants in lowland and sterility of some plants in cultivation.

Curious to see Galapagos paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1871

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 May 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7395

From:
John Knightsee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1846]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 5/2.1.4; Reel 7
Summary:

Procedure to follow in case of missing bank notes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1870

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
1 May 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1869

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 May 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3365

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[1 May 1846]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/34
Summary:

Accepts dinner invitation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9164

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1846-5]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. R.18.142 (C: RS:HS 25.13.29a)
Summary:

Agrees to WW's request [that JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk' be included in WW's planned volume?]. Regrets missing [C. K. J.] Bunsen's speech. Busy editing N. L. Lacaille's catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1872

From:
Jane Marcet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 May 1846
Source of text:
RI MS JB1/2, p.59
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1873

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jane Marcet
Date:
2 May 1846
Source of text:
Tom Pasteur
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP341

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 May 1846
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/12
Summary:

Coleoptera specimens wanted from Bates's list, specimens he has available for exchange; sending tracing of a map showing Crymlin [Crymlyn] Burrows, geology and plants there; describes Neath and Swansea valleys including a small ink sketch; plans to collect in Swansea area; Dilwyn's catalogue of Swansea Coleoptera; discusses entomological pins and microscopes.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Faraday1874

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4 May 1846
Source of text:
RGO 6/463, f.344
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-978

From:
William Hopkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 57–8
Summary:

Discussion of CD’s geological problem, relating to elevation of laminated beds around a rising granitic ridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel817

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[7?] May 1846
Source of text:
JHS 3.14b
Summary:

Mostly about JH's return from London. [Seems to have been written after JH's 1846-5-8.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1877

From:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 May 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1876

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
8 May 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1875

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Sheridan Muspratt
Date:
8 May 1846
Source of text:
LRO MS 920 MUS 2/28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel816

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1846]
Source of text:
JHS 3.14a
Summary:

JH talks about visits he has made in London, and about plans to return to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Admiralty
Date:
9 [May 1846]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10201

From:
John Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.87
Summary:

JH's letter has been forwarded via Charles Wheatstone as his town address was unknown.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-979

From:
George Grey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1846
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121c
Summary:

Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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