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Faraday2319

From:
Brough George Maltby
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 August 1850
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/50&51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2318

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Jane Moore
Date:
24 August 1850
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 256
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

JHC112

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
25 August 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.299-301, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel7011

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.260
Summary:

Guessed the name of his friend. Has not read the article attentively yet. If JH is in the south of France he may meet H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) opticizing. Picked up an old book on the reformation of the calendar owned by C. Clavius 1556. Has sent to Rome for signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9853

From:
James A. Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.187
Summary:

Congratulations on his success. Outlines persons to call on when in France. Met H. S. Fox-Strangways (3rd Earl of Ilchester) at Exeter. Has met a friend who has read Karl Reichenbach's book and believed it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10175

From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.62
Summary:

Has been unable to carry on his astronomical pursuits for the past three years. Would like to visit JH to see the construction of his telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9854

From:
James A. Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 August 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.188
Summary:

Thinks JH is the man for Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
27 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Returns one figure and sends two minute new species to be figured [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. "Pray observe how time slips by."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1348

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[28 Aug or 4 Sept] 1850
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-351

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 August 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177 169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-352

From:
Joseph Romilly
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 August 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 277
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0429

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday Morning
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1014, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP394

From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Sims (née Wallace), Frances ("Fanny") & Wallace (née Greenell), Mary Ann?
Date:
30 August [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/77
Summary:

ARW's younger brother Herbert had joined his adventure in Brazil but Alfred left him in the City of Rio Negro, a thousand miles from Para, and “has started today on his long journey up the Rio Negro.” Herbert decides to spend two months collecting specimens in the area in order to repay ARW's loan and cover costs of passage home; plans to time his return to England to be with mother and sister at Christmas.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel14795

From:
George Grey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 August 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1223; Reel 1060
Summary:

Royal warrant appointing John Graham, George Peacock, JH, John Romilly, and Adam Sedgwick to constitute Cambridge University Commission.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Date:
31 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.95)
Summary:

Expresses sympathy to MSH on W. J. Hooker’s illness.

Will send his comments on Hodgson’s physico-geographical memoir ["On the physical geography of the Himalayas", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849): 761–88] directly to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0430

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
31 Aug 1850
Source of text:
Kelvin Correspondence, Add.7342/T624, Cambridge University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0431

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
31st August 1850
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/110, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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