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Faraday1432

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 October 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I110
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-8132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m))
Summary:

Requests some carbonate of ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP15

From:
William Buckland
To:
William Kemp
Date:
3 Oct 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/10)
Summary:

WB will be arriving by the following morning’s coach and would like WK’s assistance examining the terraces.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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HENSLOW-215

From:
Joseph Henry
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 October 1842
Source of text:
Smithsonian Archives, Henry Papers Draft The Papers of Joseph Henry 5 (1985): 273-74
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday1433

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
3 October 1842
Source of text:
SM MS 350/1, f.1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1434

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Charles Macready
Date:
3 October 1842
Source of text:
Knox College Galesburg MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Tyndall0169

From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday evening, (Oct. 3rd, 1842)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3584, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
4 Oct 1842
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/130)
Summary:

Papers by T. J. Newbold [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1842): 702–5], T. C. Hunt [3 (1842): 565–6] and J. Phillips [3 (1842): 705–6] need not be printed in Transactions of the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
[4 Oct 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053)
Summary:

Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.

Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.

Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10421

From:
Thomas Henderson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.302
Summary:

Has had a reply from Thomas Maclear stating that all work has ceased at the Cape Observatory until the work on calculating the Arc of the Meridian has finished. F. W. Bessel has expressed a wish that Centaure should be observed with a heliometer. Wishes a good heliometer could be sent to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0170

From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
October 1842
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3589-90, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Tyndall0171

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Monday morning 5 1/2 o'clock, (October 1842)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3280, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 and 7 Oct 1842
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.28)
Summary:

Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.

Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.

Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.

Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.

Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0172

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Tuesday morning, Autumn 1842
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3286, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-13776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter; William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 [Oct 1842 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders distilled water, 2 oz of camphorated spirits, and perfume.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1435

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
10 October 1842
Source of text:
IC MS LP 938
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10740

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.92
Summary:

Is grateful for the specimens sent him. Has been carrying out a series of experiments on the Calotype process with extraordinary results, especially the crimson skies. What does he think of the idea of publishing a treatise on 'Light' considered as a chemical agent?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3773

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.15.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH finished his catalog of stars for his Cape Results; hopes to be finished with his nebulae and double star catalogs soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson
Date:
13 Oct [1842]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses JJ’s proposed review of his volume [Coral reefs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1436

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
13 October 1842
Source of text:
IC MS LP 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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