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Faraday1449

From:
Edward Stanley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 December 1842
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1672

From:
Alfred Smee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.158
Summary:

About chemical solutions used in photography, and problems produced by impurities in photographic paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-42-12-02

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel3948

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[2 December 1842]
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 11.17 (C: RS:HS 22.143)
Summary:

Sends RH a packet of photographs with a description of each type.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0178

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Wednesday Dec. 3rd, 1842.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3283, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday1450

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Bagot
Date:
3 December 1842
Source of text:
NAC MG 24, A 13, volume 2, f.742
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1122

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[4 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.4
Summary:

Sends CW a specimen of JH's 'mercurial photographic process.' JH is pleased that W. H. Fox Talbot received the Rumford medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1073

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Draper
Date:
[5 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.16
Summary:

Comments on JD's work in photography; JH goes on to talk about JH's ideas of 'chemical' rays of light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC323

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
5 December 1842
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.151-154, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC324

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Maria Hooker (nee Turner)
Date:
6 December 1842
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.155-161, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11271F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
8 Dec [1842-81]
Source of text:
University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49)
Summary:

Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1451

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
8 December 1842
Source of text:
TCC MS O.14.33, f.165
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10743

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.95
Summary:

Was very pleased with the specimen JH sent him; it is still in good condition. Has he read [John William] Draper's paper? Comments on some of the points. Outlines some of his own proposed experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3848

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

Finished the reductions of all of the nebulae and double stars recorded at Cape Town; JH soon hopes to prepare for the publication of his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 Dec 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64)
Summary:

CD likes Down House, describes countryside.

Tells of Edward Charlesworth fracas at Geological Society.

Is at work on Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1160

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
[1842-12-9 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.15
Summary:

Is anxious for some means to be developed to get a measurable quantity [preferably by weight] from the action of a beam of light on a surface. JH has been experimenting in photography with 'flouric' compounds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1452

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Faraday
Date:
10 December 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-13828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie
Date:
10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
Summary:

Declines invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4339

From:
Richard Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.339
Summary:

Asks for advice on a number of scientific papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1453

From:
Charles Bagot
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 December 1842
Source of text:
NAC MG 24, A 13, volume 5, pp.242-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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