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Faraday0716

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 May 1834
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0717

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 May 1834
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0747

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 December 1834
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0813

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 September 1835
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0816

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 September 1835
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I034
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0836

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 November 1835
Source of text:
WIHM MS Whewell autograph letter file
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0862

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 December 1835
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9091

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.186
Summary:

Comments on JH's proposals to James Adamson regarding education at the Cape. Criticizes Francis Bacon's philosophy. Plans to devote his efforts to philosophy and has begun a history of the sciences. Describes his work on the tides. Richard Jones's professorship at the East India College is in jeopardy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9092

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.187
Summary:

WW's results regarding tidal observation and theory. Requests further data from the Cape. Has nearly completed his history of the inductive sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9093

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.188
Summary:

Reports on his tidal studies and requests further observations from South Africa. WW's history of the inductive sciences is in press and WW has begun a philosophy of the inductive sciences. Discusses Richard Jones's career and Charles Darwin's return to England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0957

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 December 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0960

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 December 1836
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1043

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 October 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F3 D093
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE642

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1838
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 180, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9096

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
183[8]-9-10[?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.189
Summary:

Can leave Lancaster immediately for interview with William Lamb, Lord Melbourne regarding the magnetic survey. Congratulates JH for escaping presidency of the B.A.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9101

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.190
Summary:

Entreats JH, who had recently rebuffed efforts to head the R.S.L. and the B.A.A.S., to become president of the Geological Society. Specifies responsibilities involved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-504

From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 175
Summary:

Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE643

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
29 Aug 1839
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 182, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel9109

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.191-2
Summary:

Discusses what instruments should be given to Palon Boguslawski. Discusses tidal observations, noting the complexity of the results obtained.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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