From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 11
Summary:
Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.
Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1/13 June 1844
Source of text:
MM/10/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
3 June [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35)
Summary:
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1844]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Remarks that the citizens of Hanover 'are all out of their senses' over the newly completed railway. Has been confined to the upstairs of her home since 3 February.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Wright
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 7th 1844
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/5/1820-1821, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 June 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380
Summary:
Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. T. Winther
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.426
Summary:
Has developed a new process for making photographs that are better than the Daguerreotype. HW would like to sell the process [patent?] to someone in England.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
1844-6-10 or [1844-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.197
Summary:
Extensive letter answering the many queries about nebulae raised by AH in his 1844-4-18 [letter contains notes made by AH].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
11 June [1844]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0520.2; Reel 1093
Summary:
Add to [ES's] enclosed letter, which ES will explain more fully at committee meeting next week.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Chairman of R.S.L. Committee of Physics (including Meteorology)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS MC.4.32
Summary:
Encloses letter from Edward Sabine and supports proposal contained therein for excursion southward from Cape of Good Hope to complete magnetic data.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0520.3; Reel 1093
Summary:
Colonial governor at Ceylon will grant £150 annually for operation of magnetic observatory at Colombo, directed by Royal Artillery officers already there, if [R.S.L.] will supply instruments. Proposes seeking money for instruments from Wollaston Fund.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Antione Ferdinand Plateau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 June 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Byam Martin
Date:
12 June 1844
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1845, [611] 16, p.198
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 June 1844
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/30
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Emerson Headlam
Date:
[13 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.263 & 22.198
Summary:
When he was staying with Headlam he arranged to show him round a chemical works. Wonders if the sketch JH made at the time of a method for reducing chemical fumes is still extant. Would be glad to receive a copy of it, and the name of the works.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Thomson
Date:
[13 June 1844]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.12
Summary:
Sends TT some specimens of the plant tritonia uvaria.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project