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From:
Jasper Atkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0022; Reel 1062
Summary:

Did JH ever report Moneyers' situation to Treasury? Or are JH and [Henry] Rich still giving it 'consideration'?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.354
Summary:

Has received the elements of Irene from J. F. Encke, which places the planet near Egeria. Eduard Heis has asked for JH's address as he has prepared a paper on variable stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/542, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1851
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
7 June 1851
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/45)
Summary:

Mentions his account. Reduction in rent paid by Mr Hardy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Ramsey Macculloch
Date:
[7 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0237; Reel 1054
Summary:

Gratefully returns [Michel] Chevalier's work, which contained numerical data that JH sought.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Ball
Date:
8 June [1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows’ Papers 54.iii)
Summary:

Thanks for cast and account of cirripede [Chelonobia caretta] burrowing in turtle shell. Believes base of cirripede absorbed by bone below.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
8 June [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether he can borrow from Joshua Alder an article [Sven Ludvig Lovén, "Ny art af Cirripedia Alepas squalicola", Ofers. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Förh. 1 (1844): 192–4] in order to have the plate copied. Asks to borrow additional specimen of Ibla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Edmondson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 9th 1851
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/146, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/TYP/7/2402, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Rich
Date:
[9 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0329; Reel 1054
Summary:

Delays decision over assigning Henry Bingley as Chief Coiner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jasper Atkinson
Date:
[9 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0043; Reel 1054
Summary:

Assurance that JH's lack of response is due not to discourtesy but to lack of information.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 June [1851]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for reference to article by Kölliker, ["Some observations on the structure of two new species of Hectocotyle", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1851): 9–22]. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Augusta Ada Lovelace
Date:
10 June 1851
Source of text:
Bod MS dep Lovelace-Byron 171, f.50-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.6; Reel 1087
Summary:

Cambridge University Commissioners will meet on 17 June.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 11th / 51
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/158, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
George Wilson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 June 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0256.5; Reel 1087
Summary:

Nothing to report from Treasury. Hopes JH is recovering from cold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Pearse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.330
Summary:

Still more on the pension for Mary Maclear [see HP's 1851-2-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
13 June [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 44
Summary:

Thanks CSB for drawings of [cirripede] larva and for permission to cite unpublished paper ["On the development of the cirripedes", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving specimens. Mentions Balanus common on tidal rocks at Tenby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project