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FVM-62-04-19a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
19 April 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 148
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4169

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 April 1862
Source of text:
RGO 6/476, f.32-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1886

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1228; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1987-8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 56 (EH 88206039)
Summary:

Requests Oxalis acetosella, which he suspects is dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-04-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Miquel
Date:
21 April 1862
Source of text:
Bibliothek, Vakgroep Botanische Oecologie en Evolutiebiologie, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3513

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65)
Summary:

Is sending first half of orchid book.

Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1887

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 21st
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/185, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4170

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
21 April 1862
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9526

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.259
Summary:

Regarding water in the atmosphere. Effect of the moon on clouds. Some of the curiosities seen by his son while at the Embassy in Japan, including a device for giving warnings of earthquakes. Intends to show combinations of wind currents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6588

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Cavendish
Date:
[1862-4-21 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.329verso
Summary:

JH's reply to WC's 1862-4-21.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1120

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
21 April 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel2261

From:
Thomas W. Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.488
Summary:

Sends sketch of reflecting camera and describes its composition. Can now make reflectors under 7 inches very inexpensively.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6587

From:
William Cavendish
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.329
Summary:

Would like to include JH's name among those proposed for honorary degrees at Cambridge when he becomes Chancellor of the University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3514

From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 257
Summary:

Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4172

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
22 April 1862
Source of text:
BPRE MS Regg E 210/11, doc. 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4171

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
22 April 1862
Source of text:
UB MS NS 459
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4173

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
23 April 1862
Source of text:
RGO 6/476, f.34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3515

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 14
Summary:

Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9527

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[23 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.370
Summary:

Comments on the pressure of the atmosphere; is convinced of the effect of the full moon on weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3517

From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 111
Summary:

Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.

Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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