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Faraday2068

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Scott Russell
Date:
28 March 1848
Source of text:
RSA MS 48/F1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5633

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.123
Summary:

Has received his parcel and will pay particular attention to the points raised. Regarding using and corrections for the barometer. Will send manuscript to the Admiralty.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11171

From:
Anne Elise Knipping
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.61 & 61a
Summary:

Wants to send JH a remembrance which his Aunt Caroline wanted JH to have. The obituaries in some of the papers are inadequate. The astronomical journals need to be provided with suitable information about Caroline Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2034

From:
James Cowles Prichard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.65
Summary:

Glad JH finds CP's paper suitable for Admiralty Manual. JP allows question is physiological but also ethnological; admits problems but sticks to his thesis. Would JH be willing to assume a leading role in a planned new journal somewhat similar to the Athenaeum, but giving more attention to science?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP3802

From:
Wallace, Alfred Russel & Bates, Henry Walter
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
30 March 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1848 Volume 26
Summary:

ARW will leave London for Liverpool, then will set sail for Para, northern Brazil. Seeks official letter from Hooker’s Kew museum authorizing him and Bates to collect specimens for them.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel12334

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.191
Summary:

Will resume work on his 'Instructions' for the Admiralty Manual after the conclusions of his lectures. Will be able to forward it before the end of May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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