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DCP-LETT-1323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[May 1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76)
Summary:

Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8632

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Hay Cameron
Date:
[1 May 1850]
Source of text:
Getty Center
Summary:

Thanks for sharing ideas of CC and Sir Edward Ryan regarding taking a step toward making India self-governing. Discusses these ideas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2284

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
2 May 1850
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9030

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Bellas Greenough
Date:
[2 May 1850]
Source of text:
Univ.Coll.London Greenough
Summary:

Thanks GG for a publication on mensuration. Praises it, but having never favored the French metrical system, JH doubts the usefulness of a system that departs from it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9173

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0569
Summary:

Sending JH a paper by WW on the nature of induction. Reformulating Aristotle's view. Discusses a proposed Royal Visitation, which WW opposes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2285

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 May 1850
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10238

From:
George Bellas Greenough
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.125
Summary:

The metrical system is decaying. Does not see any future for the standard yard. A universal language is a necessity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
4 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1325

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

Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9174

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 May 1850]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20778 (C: RS:HS 23.86)
Summary:

Thanks for WW's paper on Aristotle. Discusses the philosophical meaning of the term conception. Mentions a visitation to the universities involving the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge [on which JH eventually served].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0401

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/527; MS JT/1/HTYP/74, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2286

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
8 May 1850
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10401

From:
Ebenezer Henderson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.281
Summary:

Sends his fractional approximation of a sidereal revolution. Would like his opinion on its accuracy. Clock will not be finished for several years.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 May [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32)
Summary:

Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1941

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Julia Margaret] Cameron
Date:
[9 May 1850]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.20
Summary:

Thanks JC for the gift of her work The Virgin [Widow?], which both JH and his wife, Margaret, are anxious to read. JH also comments that he would like to discuss the Indian situation with JC's husband.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2005

From:
Reginald Stuart Poole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.37bis
Summary:

Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] has responded to RP's queries. JH was right about him being off one day in his calculation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2287

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
11 May 1850
Source of text:
UB MS NS 390
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2287a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie
Date:
11 May 1850
Source of text:
Chris O’Brien
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2132

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
[11 May 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.378
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of a large reflecting telescope being constructed for observation of the southern heavens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93)
Summary:

Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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