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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sunday morning Sept 1st 1850
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/534, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
?? Sep 1850
Source of text:
106, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1850-9]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20780
Summary:

The publisher [John] Murray wants a new edition of JH's Admiralty Manual. Suggests revisions for WW to make in WW's paper in that volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.

Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sept 1st, 1850
Source of text:
MS JT/2/14/174, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Edmondson
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/954, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/954, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Ginty
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3702-3703, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 September 1850
Source of text:
RI MS F3 F187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Cramp
Date:
3 September 1850
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Etting Collection, Scientists, p.26, under Michael Faraday
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Wilson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.423
Summary:

As president, TW asks JH to chair next annual soirée of Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society. Names distinguished predecessors. Describes members and activities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77)
Summary:

Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".

Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
John George Roberts
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/5/434, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James A. Gordon
Date:
[5 September 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.189 & 23.91
Summary:

Has no intention of standing as MP for Cambridge. Thanks him for his generous offer. Would be pleased to pass on £200 to his cousin Thomas Baldwin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/535, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
6 September 1850
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6th September
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/154, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Margaret Louisa Herschel
To:
Thomas Wilson
Date:
8?] September [1850
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.424
Summary:

JH is touring France and may not return before November. Presumes JH will not accept TW's invitation [see TW's 1850-9-3] to preside at annual soirée.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday morning
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/536, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project