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DCP-LETT-298

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
14 Feb 1836
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

All prefer Hobart Town and its society to Sydney. CD’s view on emigration to colonies. All on board are homesick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11389

From:
John Augustus Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.300
Summary:

Forwarding meteorological and magnetic observations for Sept. and Dec. 1835. Has had no letter from the Governor, but is given to understand he may spend £100 towards the erection of a tide gauge. Have had two violent floods.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
15 Feb 1836
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 48)
Summary:

Finds the voyage tedious at present.

Expects that the different scientific societies will be of the greatest use to his work in London when he returns home.

Gives some impressions of Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0895

From:
Thomas Spring Rice
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 February 1836
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE127

From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
16 Feb 1836
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 67, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0899

From:
Caroline Fox
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 February 1836
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0896

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Britton
Date:
16 February 1836
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0897

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Constable
Date:
16 February 1836
Source of text:
Parris et.al. (1975), 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0898

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Percy Drummond
Date:
16 February 1836
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 15, f.134
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0901

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0900

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry William Pickersgill
Date:
17 February 1836
Source of text:
Hunt RB 320006, vol.3, f.184
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9237

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Philip
Date:
183[6]-2-17
Source of text:
Univ. of Witwatersrand (draft: RS:HS 13.387 & 21.197)
Summary:

Comments on the papers of evidence placed before the Aborigines Committee, and expresses himself vehemently about the sin of having penal colonies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11722

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.84
Summary:

Many thanks for the portrait; it shall soon have a resting place. Will not rest until the comet observations are en route to England. T. G. Taylor does not observe himself. There was a beautiful occultation of three stars last night.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3981

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of his fifth child, Alexander Stewart. Has made some excellent observations of Halley's Comet. Asks CH to inform Carl Gauss that JH has not received Gauss's magnetometer nor is JH certain of how to use it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3761

From:
Caroline Emily Mary Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.2.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports that JH has been looking at Halley's Comet 'every night.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12521

From:
John Philip
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.388
Summary:

Comments on the accusations made about himself before the Aborigines Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0902

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas William Aston Haviland Burke
Date:
19 February 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 A09
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6225

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.344
Summary:

Unable to send the Parramatta observations as the vessel is leaving too soon. Has just returned from a meeting to consider [William?] Ritchie's new optical glasses. George Dollond speaks well of them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0903

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
20 February 1836
Source of text:
Torquay Natural History Society MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13561

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[20 February 1836]
Source of text:
9th Treatise, 202-17
Summary:

Speculates on extinction of species by natural (not miraculous) causes intermediate to Creator. JH's theory of shifting crust over Earth's surface and its subsequent transfer of pressure. Seeks geological primum mobile for volcanoes based on continual deposition and melting of strata. 'All records of former worlds must ultimately perish.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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