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From:
Arcangelo Scacchi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1864
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.165
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Cranmer Penrose
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1864-7
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.334
Summary:
Is sending JH a paper on standardization of measurement, using decimalization but not the meter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 18
Summary:
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/146
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.160 & 24.50
Summary:
Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
London Times (July 4, 1864), p. 11, col. 2
Summary:
Responds to objections published in the Times of 30 June to JH's 1864-6-18 letter to the Times regarding the introduction of the metric system in England; JH opposes this and goes on to explain the scientific basis of the British system.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1864-7]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207114 (C: RS:HS 24.65)
Summary:
Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Sending Book X.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
2 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 144: 472
Summary:
Encloses list of CD’s publications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Norman Macleod
Date:
July 2, 1864
Source of text:
Appendix A, pp. 41-2, Twelfth Report of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.321
Summary:
Studies sidereal chromatics. Asks if William Herschel recorded colors of Beta Cygni in a 1779 observation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.155
Summary:
Appreciates the difference between Robert Hooke's and JH's suggestions for a helioscopic telescope. Comments on these suggestions. Has recently constructed a reflecting prism. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Haig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.161
Summary:
Thanks for his letter and amusing pamphlet on atoms. Comments on their use of certain terms. Does not think their views differ radically. Thinks heat is a form of movement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael and Sarah Faraday
To:
George and Emily Buchanan
Date:
4 July 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/44
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
London Times (July 6, 1864), p. 7, col. 2
Summary:
Corrects typographical errors in JH's recent letters [1864-6-18 & 1864-7-1] to the Times.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.51
Summary:
Sends WS William Herschel's chromatic observations of Beta Cygni. Completing 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Works on translating Book IX of Iliad; fears he will not complete translation of Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 230–1
Summary:
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
Tuesday 64
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
6 July 1864
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 206, no. 546, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.322
Summary:
Questions dates in William Herschel's observations. Wishes JH luck on completing translation of Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project