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Faraday0966

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 January 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/2/12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1129

From:
William Jardine
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 January 1837
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE134

From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 Jan 1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 63, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0967

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
28 January 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 313
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8810

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[29 January 1837]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/8
Summary:

Is sending WT some botanical specimens through Andrew Smith, whose scientific abilities JH praises. Asks WT to assist Smith in England. Encourages WT's work in mathematics and in 'photology.' Reports on JH's astronomical observations and theorizes about sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11509

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.421
Summary:

Has been requested by Gideon Mantell to write JH a letter of introduction for a Lieut. H. I. Thomas, a friend of Davies Gilbert. Thomas wishes to be the bearer of any letter or parcel CL may have. Believes that a copy of the President's speech he sent may be lost in the post. Thinks that JH's theory of subterranean isothermal lines interesting. Dined with the Somervilles last Sunday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE273

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Herschel
Date:
31 Jan 1837
Source of text:
HS 11.421, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel12121

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1 February 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.217
Summary:

Comments on disagreements in stellar observations and on sun spot activity; and requests observations of a specific star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

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
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