Search: 1850-1859::1850::03 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 21–40 of 67 items

Text Online

FVM-50-03-10

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1850
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 134-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel3468

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[10 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS Sa.661-2
Summary:

Thanks to [Francis] Ronalds for supply of paper. Comments on ES's discovery about direction of change in earth's magnetism, relating it to sun's and other electric currents. In this light, discusses auroras. Mentions abolishing of R.S.L. scientific committees and possible successor to John Caldecott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday2266

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
11 March 1850
Source of text:
Cumbria Record Office MS DHC/1/16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2003

From:
Reginald Stuart Poole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.36
Summary:

Asks JH about RP's astronomical deductions concerning the ancient dates of five celestial phenomena, e.g., heliacal rising of Sirius, a new moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13515

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[13 March 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0749.3 (C: -0749.4); Reel 1089
Summary:

Thanks for [?]'s kindness shown to JH's son [?] in visit to Mr. Peter's observatory. [?]'s friends 'the Wrenches' are well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday2267

From:
Thomas Phillipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 March 1850
Source of text:
Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson e.385, f.65r-66v
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3288

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[14 March 1850]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/41 (ACCS: TxU:H/M-0151.2; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Has received report of R.S.L. grant committee, noting that it did not adopt three of his recommendations. Asks questions. Is glad that RM and Charles Babbage are again on friendly terms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday2268

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Hans Christian Oersted
Date:
15 March 1850
Source of text:
Håndskriftafdelingen, Det Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen, MS Ørsted 1-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3203

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS Sa.664
Summary:

Thanks Mrs. Sabine for translation of third volume of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Admires its author. Questions references in notes. Discusses meeting for Wintringham Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1630

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[15 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.116 (C: RS:HS 25.9.62)
Summary:

About an error in the annual report of the R.A.S.; would RS give some thought to a suitable candidate for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum, made vacant by the death of John Caldecott.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

WCP1657

From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
15 March 1850?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/21
Summary:

Living conditions in Barra [Amazonas, Brazil]. Doggerel about fishing: “Here we work with Net and Trigger/By the famous river Nigger” (Watertown) Puns on local words: “All the ‘redes’ (nets) possess a title because they’re Barra-nets.”

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

Faraday2269

From:
Warren De La Rue
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001092

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
16 March 1850
Source of text:
MM/16/129, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online

Faraday2270

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Phillipps
Date:
16 March 1850
Source of text:
Bod MS Phillipps-Robinson c.507, f.188-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7009

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[16 March 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.85
Summary:

About JH's poor health; some problems in perspective. Having read a book on Egyptology, JH wanders off in flights of fanciful numerology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3162

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[16 March 1850]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/42 (ACCS: TxU:H/L-0270; Reel 1054)
Summary:

Thanks for clarifications on grant comments [see JH's 1850-3-14]. JH's work is plentiful and time is short, so wishes not to undertake public projects, like working on R.S.L. grant committee. Received RM's enclosure regarding Russian Academy. Has heard nothing about medal committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

FVM-50-03-17

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 March 1850
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 135-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-1313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

Tyndall0396

From:
Hermann Knoblauch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available