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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
January 1858
Source of text:
No. 327, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hyndman
Date:
1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M34, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 192
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Third Marquis of Lansdowne
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Between 1858 and 1863
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
[Charles Robert?] [Darwin?]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
[Charles Robert] [Darwin]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: MS 180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.307
Summary:

Too busy to answer his last letter until now. His theorem on perspective is pretty and easy. Quotes one he uses. Has been busy finding the proof that every algebraic equation has a root. Has been organ tuning. Comments on the method of tuning using beats.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1858
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.349
Summary:

Wishes to introduce an American friend, Professor Stephen Alexander, to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.444
Summary:

Reports misplacement of letters of William Herschel after publication of extracts for The Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14:312
Summary:

Will ask Parisian doctors for information JH wanted and transmit it immediately. Hopes change of air will improve JH's health. Regrets JH is not closer to the capital so that the best doctors could help. Is writing Mr. Royer to ask him to write to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.313
Summary:

Expects that JH has received instructions sent through Mr. Royer. Informs JH that HR is sick and will visit some friends to recuperate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1858-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.153
Summary:

Sends him photograph of his godchild. Would like some lines from JH that he (the godchild) might keep.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margery Ann Reid
Date:
1 January 1858
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 397-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 January 1858
Source of text:
MM/19/16, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1858
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.251
Summary:

Is AD interested in the Lowndean Professorship at Cambridge?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1858 to 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.29
Summary:

Thanks ES for receipt of information about magnetic curves and the work of [A. D.] Bache. JH is glad to hear ES is back to active work again, but JH says he is too ill to go to the B.A.A.S. meeting [in Aberdeen].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
JHS 4.7
Summary:

Describes lodgings taken in London; JH is working hard on his Physical Geography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
JHS 4.10
Summary:

JH spent most of the day before in a meeting, and with a man selling an engraving of scientists of 1806.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[1858]
Source of text:
RI
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on new edition of WG's Correlation of Physical Forces, particularly the subject of transformation of heat into motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1858?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.219-221, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Correspondent
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