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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
14 April 1847
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
George Gregory
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 April 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[16 Apr – 21 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 400
Summary:
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
16 April 1847
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
16 April 1847
Source of text:
RI MS G F20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.56
Summary:
Meeting for the formation of a new club took place last Monday. Gives list of persons who attended. To be called the Philosophical Club. Outlines its rules and regulations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
17 Apr [1847]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 712
Summary:
Admires RP’s volume [Introduction to zoology, pt 1 (1846)]; he has condensed a great deal of accurate information. CD hopes some good naturalists will spring up as a result.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.295
Summary:
Studies two possible orbits of Gamma Virginis; sends complete descriptions of both, including calculation of the apparent and actual ellipse. The first orbit combines the data of other astronomers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Apr 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 86
Summary:
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[20 April 1847]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:387
Summary:
On WH's 'Hodograph' and theorems of parabolic motion and the relation between velocities, initial velocities, and time. Praises WH's son. Cape Results nearly finished. Revising book on astronomy. Plans to 'attack' quaternions. Mentions parabolic functions and Benjamin Peirce's claim that the discovery of Neptune was accidental.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[21] April 1847
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.313
Summary:
Skeptical over plan for galvanic illumination of wires. Has not yet seen J. B. Biot article; states he has always held Biot in high regard. Discusses naming of new planet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.296
Summary:
Sends angular results from various astronomers using similar epoches.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.81
Summary:
Will be pleased to accept his offer of the glass wedges. Bad weather has upset his observations. Gives some of his recent observations. James Challis doubts the existence of a ring round Neptune. Is not impressed by Capt. W. S. Jacob's observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georg Merz & Son
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.36
Summary:
Are preparing an objective for JH, which they expect to send in August.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
22 April 1847
Source of text:
W.A.F. Burdett-Coutts
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John P. Gassiot
Date:
[22 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.56 verso
Summary:
Asks JG to allow JH to join the Philosophical Club [see JG's 1847-4-17] on a trial basis for a year or two.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[22 April 1847]
Source of text:
RI (C: RS:HS 22.314)
Summary:
Asks to be allowed to join the new Philosophical Club on a trial basis [see letter of same date to John P. Gassiot].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.57
Summary:
Will forward JH's note. Is pleased he will be joining the new club. Wishes him happiness in his retirement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
23 April 1847
Source of text:
W.A.F. Burdett-Coutts
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
(Woronzow?) Greig
Date:
26 Apr 1847
Source of text:
MSB1 / 259, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse