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Faraday1899

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/39
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project
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Faraday1900

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1901

From:
Jane Jennings
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel85

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.681
Summary:

Acknowledges, in G. B. Airy's absence, receipt of a letter from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1902

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
13 August 1846
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 232
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[14 or 21] Aug 1846
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].

Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.

Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3782

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0545.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Thanks for JH's encouragement. Sends three bills for publication expenses [regarding J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française. Letter completed 1846-8-16.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1903

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Philip Burnard Ayres
Date:
15 August 1846
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8630

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[15 August 1846]
Source of text:
Getty Center
Summary:

Thanks JC for the writing material [?] JC sent. Pleased at the prospect of JH's eldest son [William] serving in the East India Company. Discusses developments in India and some chemical processes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure)
Summary:

Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14306

From:
E. Russell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0469; Reel 1093
Summary:

Received JH's order for £21.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4575

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.291
Summary:

Discusses magnitude determination. Refers to incident in which one of WS's sons will be removed from his position but not given poor references. W. S. Jacob sends double star measurements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1904

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 August 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 379
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2499

From:
Christian F. Schönbein
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.360
Summary:

Thanks JH for kind letter. Asks JH to write letters of introduction to various people. Thinks [Roderick] Murchison will give good advice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3285

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[23 August 1846]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/35
Summary:

Wonders how [Christian?] Schönbein, who is in London, could best exhibit explosives. Hopes RM will attend upcoming meeting; [William] Stratford, who is ill, cannot. [Francis] Baily, [Thomas] Henderson, and [R.] Harris have died working on 'fatal' catalogue Stratford is doing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2500

From:
Christian F. Schönbein
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.361
Summary:

Thanks JH for interest in his gun cotton. Will demonstrate its use next week. Includes list of items he will need to perform experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1905

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
24 August 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 380
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1556

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles William Pasley
Date:
[24 August 1846]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 41964.271
Summary:

The chemist C. F. Schönbein has invented a form of 'explosive cotton' and is looking for an opportunity to demonstrate it. JH is asking CP to help arrange matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4295

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John T. Towson
Date:
[24 August 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.358 (C: RS:HS 22.279)
Summary:

Discusses JT's method for Great Circle sailing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1906

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 August 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 381
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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