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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
?
Date:
mars 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 940.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Adrien Beuchot
Date:
mars 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand AmpèreQuelques lettres inédites d'André-Marie Ampère (ParisVitry-Le-François: 19361910), p. 645-646-647.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
[Thomas?] Hodgkin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1824-3 or earlier]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1195; Reel 1060
Summary:

Tour notes composed to assist JH's travels in Sicily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Bowyer Sparke (Bishop of Ely)
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 March 1824
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
G. W. [Ott?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.214
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt by Jameson & Aders of Astronomical Society's 1824 gold medal, to be delivered to J. F. Encke in Gotha. [JH annotation: Encke confirmed receipt of medal.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
George Evelyn
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 March 1824
Source of text:
BL add MS 15949, f.115
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
4 March 1824
Source of text:
TCC MS O.13.27, f.48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.193
Summary:

Is leaving from Cambridge. Hopes that he will come. Has some new things on functional analysis to discuss.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Bidwell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 March 1824
Source of text:
YUL MS OSB. 1267
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas W. Hornbuckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.484
Summary:

Enclosing a draft for his dividend, which he hears will be the last. Hopes he changes his fellowship for a better one, but would be pleased if he would delay his decision for a while.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Yates
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
10 Mar 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/26/79, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Reckons Smith amongst his "oldest and most valued friends"; about to marry; their new address, invites Smith to visit but hopes to see him in London before then; vouches for Smith's belief of botany as a "medium of communication with interesting and cultivated minds", it being instrumental in bringing him and his fiancée together. Recently called on [William] Roscoe who showed him "beautiful specimens" of his forthcoming work on 'Scitamineae'; believes Roscoe could have acquired more subscribers by making it more known.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Richard Bright
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
10 Mar 1824
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/21/31, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Bristol Institution thanks Smith for his good wishes; usefulness of the Institution. Responds to Smith's queries about botanical part of a course of lectures held at the Institution; an application for second course rejected.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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From:
William Lyons
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 March 1824
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.257
Summary:

Regarding the change of ownership and policy of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. Would like a paper from him for the first number. Marked 'Private.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Ward
Date:
13 March 1824
Source of text:
UU EW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Wilhelm Pastorff
Date:
[15 March 1824]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 6/2.10 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

Observations of Venus by William Herschel and JH. Only J. H. Schröter claims to have seen 'deep marginal indentations' that JP claims.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Wallace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1824]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Please recommend London instrument makers to supply new Edinburgh observatory. Josef Fraunhofer was asked to make only lens for transit instrument, but wants to make entire instrument. [JH annotation: Recommended Fraunhofer for entire transit instrument and Robert Molyneux for clock.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Auguste de La Rive
Date:
17 mars 1824
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 647-648-649.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
Text Online
From:
Fourth Earl of Dartmouth
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 March 1824
Source of text:
WSL, S.MS.478/4/21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Pierre Simon Laplace
Date:
[18 March 1824]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.7 (C: 20.178)
Summary:

Henry Kater's triangulation survey of north Scotland. Edward Sabine's study of pendulum lengths at various latitudes. François Arago did not receive letters from JH and Francis Baily. Comments on rumor of [Isaac] Newton's madness. JH plans to reduce transit observations of fixed stars at Greenwich since [James] Bradley's time. Are French and other astronomers in agreement on common system of reductions? Will visit Paris next month. Observed curious phenomena in voltaic electricity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project