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DCP-LETT-169

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
May–June [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.

The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
May 1832
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46)
Summary:

Writes of voyage and his work in natural history: geology, collecting insects (freshwater beetles and spiders at Botofogo Bay); life at sea, sublime views ashore.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0575

From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c May 1832
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I118
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0576

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 May 1832
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE635

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 May 1832
Source of text:
Trinity College (Cambridge) Library, Whewell Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel595

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 May 1832]
Source of text:
RGO 6.804.93
Summary:

Is trying to clean up JH's nebulae observations preparatory to leaving for the Cape; comments on communications from F. G. W. Struve about double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0577

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Date:
5 May 1832
Source of text:
SU
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4667

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.52
Summary:

Observations on the various ways of measuring angular positions (of double stars). Opinion on JH publishing his catalogue of nebulae. Remarks on the low standard of astronomical observations in England compared with the Continent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4257

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.245
Summary:

Will observe transit [of Mercury] hoping it will provide good meridian data. Encloses sketch of telescope in Bedford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0578

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
7 May 1832
Source of text:
BL add MS 37186, f.382
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6206

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1832-5-10 or 1832-5-
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.327 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Regarding instructions for James Dunlop at Parramatta Observatory. Richard Copeland has been reappointed to the Meteor, now renamed Beacon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9548

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.276
Summary:

Is proposing to visit the continent after the Oxford meeting to make observations and intends taking some meteorological instruments. Would like JH's advice on some points regarding the large thermometer filled with a blue liquid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-170

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May [– 2 June] 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 96
Summary:

News from Maer and Shrewsbury of family, friends, and reports of reactions to CD’s first letters.

Sedgwick suggests he look for fossils in gravel banks of rivers.

Fanny Owen is married to R. M. Biddulph. Reform Bill prospects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1042

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Wilhelm Struve
Date:
[12 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.7
Summary:

Is now committed to the Cape journey, and will be occupied most of the time till then with the reduction of JH's nebulae observations. Comments on several other astronomical matters. [Letter is finished on board a steam packet on the way to Hamburg to visit JH's aunt, Caroline, dated 1832-6-9.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L779

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jean-Jacques Ampère (fils d'Ampère)
Date:
13 mai 1832
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 745-746.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0579

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
14 May 1832
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-000590

From:
George William Featherstonehaugh
To:
William Buckland
Date:
15 May 1832
Source of text:
MM/10/152, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel8489

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.469
Summary:

Has heard that JH is publishing an attack on JS's double star observations made in France. Is this correct?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James South
Date:
[16 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.470 (C: 21.107)
Summary:

Responds to JS's fear [see 1832-5-15] that JH has been preparing an attack on JS's double star observations by explaining in detail and providing extensive evidence that JH has no such intention.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5984

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[17 May 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.111 & 21.108
Summary:

Would he inform him of the date of the next visitation meeting. Will bring his own catalogue of double stars for the next R.A.S. meeting. Thanks for his paper on proper motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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