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WCP1658

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
13 June 1851
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/22
Summary:

Henry W. Bates conveys to ARW’s mother news of the death of her son Edward (Herbert Edward), ARW’s younger brother, who reached camp while ARW was away upriver. He had contracted yellow fever; Bates was with him, obtained physician’s care, but after a few days Herbert perished from the “black vomit,” the most lethal form of the disease. Bates reports that Herbert was well looked after to the end.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
13 June [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 387
Summary:

Suggests that JD consult with Edward Forbes about dredging.

Delighted he will look for fossil bones.

Asks him to look for Australian cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13964

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0256.6; Reel 1087
Summary:

Messrs. Rennie submitted estimate [for contract coinage work] yesterday that HH considers preposterous.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2435a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
13 June 1851
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel545

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.9
Summary:

About a strange mixture of coinage in Prussia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0497

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/983, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2436

From:
Anne Isabella Noel King
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 June 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
15 June [1851]
Source of text:
Gilman 1899, p. 310
Summary:

Thanks for note of 13 May and tracings of the "curious Bopyrid".

Is astonished at amount of work JDD does and frightened it will cause ill-health, such as CD has experienced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2437

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 June 1851
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13577

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1851]
Source of text:
Return, 38-9
Summary:

Treasury commissioners rejected bids from Mr. Nutting, George Rennie, and firm of Maudslay, Sons, & Field for contracts to coin gold, silver, and copper coins for Mint. JH should develop a plan for conducting coinage in some government agency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2438

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
16 June 1851
Source of text:
Lacock Abbey MS 51-22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13965

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0256.7; Reel 1087
Summary:

Treasury rejected all bids [for contract coinage work] and called for establishing coining facilities within Mint. Sends copy of such plan that HH already prepared for JH's signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2439

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 June 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13682

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.7; Reel 1087
Summary:

Cambridge University Commissioners will meet on 11 July.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0498

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
Thursday
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, StBPL T&F
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2440

From:
Augusta Ada Lovelace
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 June 1851
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14625

From:
William Wyon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0610; Reel 1086
Summary:

Thanks for timely warning of date when dies for new florin will be needed. Confirms inscription that JH wants on florin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12619

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jasper Atkinson
Date:
[21 June 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0044; Reel 1054
Summary:

Mint must resume gold coinage and needs to take possession of Moneyers' equipment quickly. This will relieve Moneyers of additional responsibility.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
22 June [1851]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/4)
Summary:

Thanks AH for assistance and Joshua Alder for his kindness. Ibla specimens offered would not aid him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1629

From:
John Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
22 June 1851
Source of text:
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/97
Summary:

“Little town of Sonora, Tuolomne County, has grown into a city.” No chance of me “settling down with a Wife” at present. Doing moderately well working in the mines (5-6 dollars a day); working at own company brings no cash, so must hire self out as ordinary miner during slow season; cannot “stand idle in California.” San Francisco had fire on 4th of May “destroying nearly the whole City;” last year Stockton also burned down, “but such is the magical influence of Gold that both Cities are now nearly the same as before.” About a thousand miners live and work in this vicinity.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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