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HENSLOW-1030

From:
P. M. Roget
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1842
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-62:241
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday1387

From:
David Brewster
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1842
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4713

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.102 (C: RGO 6.368.648)
Summary:

Regarding his letter writing. Has a promise of a trip on the Dover Railway.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-42-03-15

From:
Iwanne Müller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 March 1842
Source of text:
Private hands
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday1386

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Manby
Date:
15 March 1842
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3809

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[15 March 1842]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 12.17
Summary:

Believes that the operative rays in JH's thermographic process are neither 'calorific' nor 'thermal'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14710

From:
'Q in a Corner'
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0908; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0130

From:
John Tyndall, Snr
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 16th, 1842
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3267, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP339

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
Date:
[16] [March] [1842]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/9
  • Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. Vol. 1. London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 178]
Summary:

A long, evocative, descriptive poem about Wales, contrasting wild and beautiful countryside with the ugly hell of coal mines and Welsh miners’ brutal existence there.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0131

From:
Phillip Evans
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 17th 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3570, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel9738

From:
Alfred Gautier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.85
Summary:

Regarding the publication of his own observations on Halley's Comet; comments on these. [L. F.] Wartmann was very pleased with the results of his recent visit to England. Has been occupied with political problems. Looks forward to seeing the completion of JH's Cape observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel66

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 March 1842]
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.649
Summary:

Final arrangements for GA's visit to JH [see GA's 1842-3-15].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8625

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
Geological Society
Summary:

Responds to RM's request for an analysis of the cause of the difference in climate between Orenburg and Catherineburg in Russia. Agrees that Geological Society can print JH's Alpine memoir.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[20 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.114
Summary:

Comments on WL's finding a sixth star in the trapezium of Orion [see WL's 1842-3-10]; lists other catalogues that identify that star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000671

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
21 March 1842
Source of text:
MM/11/177A, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4714

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.103 (C: RGO 6.368.651)
Summary:

Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1388a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Long
Date:
21 March 1842
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Tyndall0132

From:
John Chadwick
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 22nd 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3494, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-624

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 Mar [1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57)
Summary:

Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0133

From:
Thomas Charles Higginson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23rd March 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3732, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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