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Herschel7169

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.372
Summary:

Did JH know when he was Master of the Mint that Isaac Newton had introduced a golden quarter-guinea? Most of his family are at Aldeburgh. Does he know Tristram Shandy's sense of proportion? Charles Babbage has become a public benefactor by the passing of the act against barrel organs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-08-18

From:
Charles Darling
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 August 1864
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 242, VPRS 1093 Governor's minute books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0657

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[18 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel6347

From:
John C. Broun
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.111
Summary:

Regrets the expense incurred by the enclosed letter. Sends the report from the Colonial Office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2130

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Ellen Lubbock
Date:
Friday 18th Aug. 1864
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, ff. 212-3, BL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4595

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 176: 13
Summary:

R. I. Murchison has criticised ACR’s glacial lake theory in his Presidential Address to Royal Geographical Society [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 34 (1864): cix–cxcii].

ACR has finished his Geology of N. Wales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13044

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart from Isabella Herschel
Date:
[18] August 1864
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0457; Reel 1055
Summary:

News of Herschel family. JH asks for information about 'India Stock' [investments].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7742

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Christopher Carrington
Date:
[18 August 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.4; Reel 10
Summary:

If RC's formulas for sunspots are correct, then 'trade-wind theory' is challenged and sun's photosphere may behave as envelope circulating around sun according to laws of planetary motion. Questions formula relating to sunspot velocity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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