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KEMP48

From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[1 Sept 1843 - 30 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/27)
Summary:

Longing for a letter from WK. Describes various excurions through Fife.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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Faraday1516

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1 September 1843
Source of text:
BL add MS 37192, f.445
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1515

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Penny
Date:
1 September 1843
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4944

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[1843-9]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.333 (C: RS:HS 25.13.12)
Summary:

Regarding custody of the Standards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-690

From:
John Lindley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 50: A21–2
Summary:

Much interested in CD’s communication [about W. Kemp] and seeds sent; does not know the species; has sent seeds to Henslow.

Describes a monstrous plant found near Ely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[2 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A8–10
Summary:

Tells how W. Kemp found the seeds of Atriplex, which Lindley sent to JSH for identification.

Asks about monstrous plant mentioned by Lindley [see 690].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12591

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz & Son
Date:
[2 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.18
Summary:

Is inquiring, on behalf of the Admiralty, about ordering an equatorially mounted achromatic telescope for the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[4 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 67)
Summary:

Comments on his visit to N. Wales and the evidence of glaciation, of which he feels certain.

His marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] has revived after Louis Agassiz’s "ice work" knocked it on the head.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10880

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.229
Summary:

Will find one friend at the R.S.L. Club dinner next Thursday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1518

From:
Hans Christian Oersted
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 September 1843
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1517

From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
5 September 1843
Source of text:
S.F. Spira
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Tyndall0231

From:
Archibald McLachlan
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Wednesday - Sep. 6th 1843
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3788-3791; MS/JT/8/1/4a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13644

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0027; Reel 1062
Summary:

Sends deeds already signed by J. J. Guest. JH should sign and return them. [Annotation by unknown hand: Mrs. Hollier's marriage and settlement.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1519

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
6 September 1843
Source of text:
UB MS NS 354
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2463

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 September [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.317
Summary:

Sends letter from [P. H. L. ] Boguslawski for JH's magnetic report. [John] Lefroy has found line of greatest intensity further south in Canada than ES expected.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0232

From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7th Sep. 1843.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3609, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel2120

From:
John David Roberton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.367
Summary:

[J. C.] Ross has returned safely. Ross has a box for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-691F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[8 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP25

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23)
Summary:

Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

Herschel4490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.167
Summary:

Offers condolences to Ann Smyth. WS's calculation of Gamma Virginis orbit surprises JH. Concerned about accurate methods of calculation. Remarks on excavation of Chelsea mammoth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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