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Herschel8108

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Wolstenholme Ward
Date:
[24 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.374 (C: 23.168)
Summary:

Happy to hear that [new Sydney mint] is going well. JH confined with painful illness since Mar. 1855; still unable to walk or stand upright without support. Aluminium may be used in coins, but JH doubts it will replace iron in pots and pans. War is ended, but people worry about further Russian aggression.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel469

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[24 April 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.216.115
Summary:

Has no actinometers available [see GA's 1856-4-23], but tells GA where he can get one; rhapsodizes about the beauty of nature around him, and the silliness of a person.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3126

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Adcock
Date:
25 April 1856
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

JHC1420

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
25 April 1856
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.216, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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HENSLOW-441

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
25 April 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 304
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1860

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Foresees WBT will work out poultry so well that CD will "be gladly saved the trouble". Would like some eggs from WBT’s Polish fowl and thanks him for acquiring the Indian laughing pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3128

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1856
Source of text:
UB MS NS 424
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1213

From:
John Tyndall
To:
The Editors of the Times
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13c/836, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-M56-04-26

From:
Redmond Barry
To:
Charles Pasley
Date:
26 April 1856
Source of text:
Letterbook of the Council 1854-71, University of Melbourne Archives, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday3127

From:
Robert Mallet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1215

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28 April
Source of text:
MS JT/3/903, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7875

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.79
Summary:

Heard JH not well. Offers him 'a nosegay, gathered from [JH's] own garden of the Differences of the Powers of Zero.' More notes on the self-repeating series. Developed two equations that HW may submit to Cambridge [Philosophical] Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3130

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Duc de Plaisance
Date:
28 April 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3129

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
28 April 1856
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1214

From:
The War Department
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28th. April 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/2/7/310/11, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3131

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 April 1856
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7881

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Holloway
Date:
[29 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.85a
Summary:

Plans to sell JH's property at Upton, including tenement Holloway occupies, to neighbors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3132

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 April 1856
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG2/k/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-13770F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hall Bakewell
Date:
30 Apr [1856-68]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (4 June 2008)
Summary:

Thanks for case of inherited malconformation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1216

From:
Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/17, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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