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Tyndall0156

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Monday, (Aug. 1st, 1842)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3276, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday1415

From:
William Cubitt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 August 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Tyndall0157

From:
John Chadwick
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
August 3rd.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3498, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3847

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1842]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Promises in her next letter to comment about JH's 'chrysotype' photographic process.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-637A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Aug 1842
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4723 paper 15949)
Summary:

The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of part five of the Zoology, now published, is presented.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0158

From:
John Tyndall
To:
? Burchell
Date:
August 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3527-8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0159

From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
August 1842
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3580, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0160

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Sunday, (Aug. 7th, 1842)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3277, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday1416

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Lake
Date:
8 August 1842
Source of text:
Maddison Collection, Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9025

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Coates
Date:
[8 August 1842]
Source of text:
Univ.Coll.London SDUK Papers
Summary:

[To JC as Secretary, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:] Thanks for offer to send a copy of Augustus De Morgan's Differential and Integral Calculus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3995

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.12.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Describes the total solar eclipse seen by Francis Baily at Pavia and George Airy at Turin. They were thrilled to witness three purple flames from the blocked sun emerge around the edge of the moon. Thirty more Cape Town sweeps remain to be reduced.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1419

From:
Faraday Jacob Herbert
To:
Faraday Jacob Herbert
Date:
10 August 1842
Source of text:
GL MS 30108A/1, pp.188-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Tyndall0161

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Tuesday night, Aug. 10h, 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/10/3278, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday1418

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Amedeo Avogadro
Date:
10 August 1842
Source of text:
Guareschi (1911), CXXXIX
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1417

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
10 August 1842
Source of text:
UB MS NS 347
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8881

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[10 August 1842]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #773 (Aug. 20, 1842), 748
Summary:

Seeks to clear up confusions about various photographic processes, e.g., the Chrysotype process, developed by JH, about which confusions arose from earlier reports on them in the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-639

From:
Thomas Blunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1842
Source of text:
DAR 5: B17–18
Summary:

Gives the height of Shrewsbury above sea-level.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
[11 Aug 1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

Congratulates HES on producing an authoritative document [BAAS committee report on zoological nomenclature].

Has been to N. Wales looking at glacier traces described by W. Buckland, which are most interesting and clear. Has written an article on what he saw ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire" (1842), Collected papers 1: 163–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9245

From:
F. M. Eardley-Wilmot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.2
Summary:

Has been unable to make many readings with the actinometer. Is expecting some irregular readings with the magnetometers. Survey of South Africa appears very distant. Relates recent events in Natal and with the Boers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0162

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John B Edgeworth
Date:
August 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/1/3926, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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