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Herschel5777

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[19 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.252-4 (C: RS:HS 20.90)
Summary:

Sending all his papers on the deviations of tints, suitably amended to give DB due acknowledgement. Queries regarding some of DB's statements. Supports his theories in a new paper he has written for the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10157

From:
George Gretton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.44
Summary:

Further news regarding the position of organist at Hereford. Hopes JH's parents are well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0111

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles-Gaspard De La Rive
Date:
20 April 1820
Source of text:
BPUG MS 2311, f.55-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5185

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[20 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.134
Summary:

Reasons why his father does not wish to become the president of the Astronomical Society. Has attended a meeting of the Philosophical Society. Please send three or four copies of the address of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5186

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[21 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.91 (C: RS:HS 2.134)
Summary:

Declining invitation for William Herschel to be President of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN3468

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
John Nichols
Date:
23 Apr 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/JN/6, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sending proofs. Details of type, agrees about not having woodcuts. Intends to call on Nichols during his time at Thomas Furly Forster's at Clapton in May. Declines receiving any further [Emanuel Mendez] da Costa's [(1717-1791), naturalist] as they are chiefly mineralogical.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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HENSLOW-1

From:
James Sowerby
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 April 1820
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176:1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel5597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[25 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.87 (C: RS:HS 20.93)
Summary:

Fears that a letter written to him in November may not have reached him. Will send him a copy of his paper of colors. A Philosophical Society has been formed at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5884

From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.9
Summary:

Further invitation to breakfast with them and Sir Walter Scott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN870

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum
Date:
26 Apr 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/64, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

In mourning for four relatives, including his and Lady Smith's mothers. Going to Thomas Furly Forster's in Clapton, [Essex], for a week before going onto London, and then to lecture in Liverpool in May. Hopes to see Cullum at Horticultural and Linnean Society meetings in May. Laments deaths of [Thomas] Woodward and [Jeremiah] Ives [(d 1820), mayor of Norwich 1786 and 1801] of Catton, [Norfolk]. Thinks Cullum's plant is 'Dianthus virgineus', requests dried specimens of 'Tulipa sylvestris'. Has solicited for Mr Longstaff's astronomical lectures. Preparing for the press "very curious" letters from Dillenius to Linnaeus and to Dr Richardson.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN2317

From:
John Nichols
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
29 Apr 1820
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/24/36, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Notes that although [Emanuel Mendez] da Costa's [(1717-1791), naturalist] manuscripts are chiefly concerned with mineralogy there are several on botany from [George] Edwards [(1694-1773)], [Georg Dionysius] Ehret [(1708-1770)], Knolles, [John] Martyn [(1699-1768)], [Philip] Miller, [Richard] Pulteney, and some others, and are available for Smith's use [for "A selection of the correspondence of Linnaeus" (1821)].

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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