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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 164
Summary:

Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Couch Adams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.7
Summary:

Stating he has approached certain Government officials in order to obtain a pension for John Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Langton, Charlotte
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[late April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Merryweather
Date:
1 April 1851
Source of text:
Merryweather (1851)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bingley
Date:
1851-4
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0094; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH cannot give definite date for HB's termination in Assay Office. This will be delayed for as long as gold is being imported for coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 April 1851
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (Ed.). (1908). In: Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes . Vol. 1. London: Macmillan & Co. [pp. 208-211]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Brockedon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1851-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.106
Summary:

Will have some power punches made. Gives Mr. Hodges's notes on JH's points. Very busy at the moment with the exhibition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
April 2 - 1851
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, StBPL T&F
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 April 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.248.6
Summary:

Encourages GA to write a letter in support of time off for John Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.119.204
Summary:

Note to accompany return of printed text [see GA's 1851-3-31], with one annotation enclosed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.119.206
Summary:

Needs clarification of JH's annotation [see JH's 1851-4-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0254.1.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encloses draft of proposed letter to Treasury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Apr 1851
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Fossil cirripedes specimens being returned. Will send a copy of monograph [Fossil Cirripedia]. Discusses work on recent cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, A. E.
Date:
[4 or 11 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward Enfield
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0184.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encloses official response by EE to offer from Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood]. Asks JH to see that memorial from EE [and Robert Rintoul] is read by [Henry Rich].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 April 1851
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add Ms.a.59: 11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 April 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.119.207
Summary:

Responds, clearing up the misunderstood instruction [see GA's 1851-4-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
5 Apr [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

Returns fossil cirripede specimens to WD, Friedrich Adolph Roemer, R. A. Philippi, and F. C. L. Koch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[5 April 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0481.5; Reel 1055
Summary:

Forwards letter from Edward Enfield, who feels that Enfield's compensation as terminated Moneyer should not be diminished for declining offer of position in new Mint establishment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project