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DCP-LETT-383A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[May? 1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169)
Summary:

Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1837-5]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Asks TM to return JH's book of star magnitudes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11831

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1837-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.190
Summary:

Returns JH's book of estimated magnitudes and would like it again when preparing his catalogue. Sends letters he received from Francis Beaufort and [Richard?] Jones. Is oppressed with business and an awful cough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0991

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
2 May 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 316
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0992

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
3 May 1837
Source of text:
RS MS Lub F8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0993

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
4 May 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 317
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0994

From:
Faraday report
To:
Faraday report
Date:
5 May 1837
Source of text:
NLS MS 2207, f.184-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12122

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[5 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.220
Summary:

About the observation of sun spots and the second satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11741

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.103
Summary:

Received the enclosed communications by the steamer. Can JH send him a list of unobserved comet stars? Work on N. L. Lacaille's Observatory gives satisfaction. Regarding Capt. Mackonochee. Lacaille's angular measurements are not above suspicion. Observed the two rings of Saturn distinctly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3840

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 May 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Has decisively mapped Saturn's sixth satellite; doubts, however, that he will ever see the seventh. Asks CH to inform Friedrich Bessel of his observation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0995

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barrow
Date:
9 May 1837
Source of text:
PRO ADM1 / 4614, f.121
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0996

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
11 May 1837
Source of text:
RS MS Lub F9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE33

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 May 1837
Source of text:
MSB1 / 257, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel11387

From:
John Augustus Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.297
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's kindness conveyed in his letter brought to him by Mohammed Ismail Khan. The latter has been attempting to persuade JL to go to Lucknow as an engineer, but has declined pending offer from the King of Oude. Will send his observations to Francis Beaufort after JH has left the Cape. Answers some of JH's queries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0997

From:
Thomas Graham
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1837
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0999

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
David Mocatta
Date:
16 May 1837
Source of text:
K.W. Vincentz
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0998

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
16 May 1837
Source of text:
DP
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 [May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35)
Summary:

Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.

Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.

CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10095

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.432
Summary:

Family news update.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[19 May – 16 June 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 52
Summary:

Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.

Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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