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SOMERVILLE149

From:
Thomas Stephens Davies
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
4 Feb 1837
Source of text:
MSD 1 / 108, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE135

From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Feb 1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 65, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel4010

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[6 February 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wants to borrow TM's carpenter. Found a faint planetary nebula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0968

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
6 February 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 314
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4586

From:
James Prinsep
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.72
Summary:

Miss Pattle and C. R. Prinsep, Secretary of Government Proceedings, are going to Cape of Good Hope and will bring JP's Journals of the Asiatic Society to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0969

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peregrine Fuller Palmer Acland
Date:
9 February 1837
Source of text:
SoRO MS DD/AH 63/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-343

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1837
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11866

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[13 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.225
Summary:

Cannot send the Brisbane list by the end of the week. Will not expect J. K. Gibbs until the cart is finished. Returns solar spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9561

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.293
Summary:

Sending a letter via Capt. Basil Hall. Is surprised JH did not mention the starry showers of 12 Nov. in his last letter, D. F. J. Arago is investigating them. J. B. Biot has published an extension of [Denison?] Olmsted's theory. Humphrey Lloyd has produced an interesting book on the undulatory theory. What measure does JH employ for the force of the wind? Has got William Whewell's anemometer. Influenza prevalent. William Farish has been succeeded by Robert Willis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0969a

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
15 February 1837
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.27-42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3940

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
15] February [1837
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Notes discrepancies between TM's and Thomas Brisbane's observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10303

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.186
Summary:

Sends a small dispatch from J. D. Forbes. The barometer seems to have no connection with the weather this winter. Had a snow shower but could see no clouds in the sky. Preparing for the occultation of Mars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-344

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 143
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.

Fanny Biddulph has had a son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-204

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
16 February 1837
Source of text:
The National Trust, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey 36277
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel7925

From:
Matthew Henry Webster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.128
Summary:

Communicated JH's letter of 30 Sept. [1836] to the Albany Institute. Hopes JH received meteorological register of observation points in U.S., which are increasing in number. Sent meteorological reports to societies and individuals JH requested. Describes barometer and temperature measurements in wells and barometer extremes in great December storm. W. C. Redfield of New York says duration of observation periods recommended by JH is too short.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11739

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.101
Summary:

Regrets having to send the observations on so many sheets; those in red ink will be re-observed. John Steuart has given him a note about spots on the sun. Sends Mr. Stebbing's letter and would like JH's comments when he sees him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6880

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.183
Summary:

Will be a great reception for JH when he returns. Is working on a theory of probabilities. Francis Baily is the man for mapping the entire heavens. G. B. Airy is to test JH's topsy-turvy observations of Orion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8578

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1837]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire County Council
Summary:

Thanks JH for drawing of JH's house. Sends drawing of JL's Hartwell Observatory and publications from the observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-345

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Feb 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 141
Summary:

Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.

Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].

News of family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0970

From:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 February 1837
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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