From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
1 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 February 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 284
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
-2-1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.260-261, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 117
Summary:
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.258
Summary:
Would he drop him a few lines on the orbit of the meteor for the R.A.S. Robert Potts of Trinity is to publish by subscription a translation of Robert Simson's Porisms.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.347
Summary:
In looking through Lamont 1845-6 he found two observations of Neptune not previously recognized. Thanks for his memoir on the orbits of double stars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:
Returning with gratitude HT's Statesman, which stimulated much political and social reflection in JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sophie Beckedorff
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.7
Summary:
Family and political news.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[5 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.231
Summary:
A. G. Melville will start Meteorological Observatory at Queen's College, Galway. CPS discusses JH article on plans for building an ice-making machine.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[6 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
RF’s specimens have arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. W. Payne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.148
Summary:
Discusses points of lunar and solar eclipse observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/526, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 February [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.438
Summary:
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Royal Society
Date:
9 February 1850
Source of text:
RS MS RR 2.155
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
11 February 1850
Source of text:
MM/16/126, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[11 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.84
Summary:
Answers questions raised by AH in his 1850-1-19 [letter contains notes made by AH].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Scott Russell
Date:
12 February 1850
Source of text:
RSA MS John Scott Russell Collection, volume 3, f.196
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.
Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].
Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Algernon Pollock
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 February 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 271
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project