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Tyndall0371

From:
Jean Lancaster
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 13. 49.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3738, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel5639

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.129
Summary:

Wishes to embody in his reports on atmospheric waves details of JH's work in this field. Would like his comments on his suggested wording. Can E. W. Brayley borrow Karl Kreil's book? Nothing from Madras yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE86

From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
14/02/(1849?)
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 406, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel12172

From:
John Edwin Mayall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.30
Summary:

Sends the proof of the lithograph from the Daguerreotype for JH's comments and additions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2153

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
15 February 1849
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1226

From:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

Clarifies the notion and use of type-species and applies it to CD’s problem with Conchoderma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1137

From:
William Whewell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 February 1849
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel12372

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.229
Summary:

Examined the nebula of Andromeda the night before last with his three-foot instrument. Comments on his observations and the sketch made by [W. C.?] Bond. Would require several good nights to make a sketch of value.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[16 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
Edward Ford (private collection)
Summary:

Asks for account on South America and sales of Coral reefs and Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6990

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[18 February 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.249 & 23.58
Summary:

Returns H. P. Brougham's (Baron Brougham and Vaux) paper. Does not recall any similar theories, but does not think his own theories are shaken by those of Brougham. Finds that AD has already done extensive work on the calendar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
[19 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

Thanks HES for solving his problem. Has some difficulty with HES’s type-species. In arranging genera in a natural order it is often impossible to say which species should be considered the type.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5640

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.130
Summary:

Has received his letter of the 20th and is anxious to know if E. W. Brayley can borrow Karl Kreil's book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2154

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
Date:
23 February 1849
Source of text:
W.A.F. Burdett-Coutts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2155

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Louisa Maria Kerr
Date:
23 February 1849
Source of text:
Boston University Library, Newell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
24 Feb [1849]
Source of text:
Formerly Leeds City Libraries; for sale at Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Summary:

Thanks him for cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2156

From:
James Clark
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 February 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[24 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks RO for his note on Conchoderma hunteri [see Living Cirripedia 1: 153].

Has been very unwell; has lost four-fifths of his time. Will go to Malvern to try the water-cure for his vomiting, which regular doctors cannot cure.

Has done some pretty homological work with cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1229A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Peter Lund Simmonds
Date:
25 Feb [1849]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

Sends detailed report on the prospects for a settlement on the coast of Patagonia, pointing out many problems, and recommending instead the Falkland Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2157

From:
James Clark
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 February 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11407

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.318
Summary:

Encloses some sketches to show some remarkable changes in solar spots. Would he place the observations before the R.A.S. when finished with them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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