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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/893, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Paul Frederick Henry Baddeley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 April 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[18 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.140
Summary:

Returns [WB's] paper on the zodiacal light. Notes error and offers JH's ideas about light's source.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[18 April 1850]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.15
Summary:

Cannot accept the invitation to stay during the B.A.A.S. meeting in Edinburgh, as JH will be unable to come.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.146
Summary:

Clarifies results of pressure oscillations on two coasts of India as similar despite different weather conditions, and deems results thus unsatisfactory; explores reasons and suggests solutions for lack of success.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Henry Lefroy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.469
Summary:

Believes that Edward Sabine has brought J. H. Lefroy's paper on the Aurora Borealis to JH's notice. Now presents another report on this subject, with comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
20 April 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.280, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Stenhouse
To:
President of the Royal Society
Date:
20 April 1850
Source of text:
MM/21/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Lewin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1850]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (91)
Summary:

Thanks JH for some historical information on events of the first century A.D. [for TL's study on the life of St. Paul].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Morison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.51
Summary:

Sends a copy of the notice in the Times of a fall of ice in Rossshire, also an account of a similar fall in India in 1826. Comments on these occurrences. [James] Dalmahay has constructed a slide rule for computing the dew-point.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Hay Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.145
Summary:

Has addressed a letter to the East India Company, which has raised a storm.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[23 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.102 (C: RS:HS 25.9.66)
Summary:

About some difficulty in trying to determine [Andrew] Graham's interest in the Trivandrum post.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection)
Summary:

Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Nathaniel Wallich
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 April 1850
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
1850-4-[24 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.9.68
Summary:

[John Russell] Hind is being considered for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Thomas Briggs
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
[25 April 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0977; Reel 1083
Summary:

Please ask JH to send receipts to account for £316 spent on equatorial telescope from Munich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[25 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.103 (C: RS:HS 25.9.67)
Summary:

[Andrew] Graham is not interested in the post [see JH's 1850-4-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0069; Reel 1087 (ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book)
Summary:

Encloses note from accountant general of Navy about payment of Cape telescope. Send receipt to FB to complete transaction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.408
Summary:

Sends [J. W.] Pastorff's solar observations [see HS's 1850-4-16] as JH's own property.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[26 April 1850]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:478
Summary:

A Mr. Patton has applied for a position as astronomer. Is he 'conversant with practical observing'?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project