Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Krichauff
Date:
August 1851
Source of text:
Private hands
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Aug – early Sept 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 98
Summary:
James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.
Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.
JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
1 August 1851
Source of text:
UB MS NS 398
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 August 1851
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4129
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 August, 1851
Source of text:
MS JT/2/12/4129, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.387
Summary:
JH's exertions and friendship are a treasure. Will visit them on Monday next.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1851-8]
Source of text:
JHS 6.25
Summary:
About the expected death of [Richard] Jones; JH is about to leave to visit him and Mrs. Jones.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1851-8]
Source of text:
JHS 6.17
Summary:
Is awaiting notice that he needs to go to see [Richard] Jones, who is very ill with a carbuncle on his neck. JH also comments on arrangements to be made related to Jones's illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Wallace
To:
Mary Ann? Wallace (née Greenell)?
Date:
August 1851
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/98
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/1
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:
Has left nearest town “to be a sojourner in the wilderness.” Speculating on an immense construction project; joined 160 miners to build a canal or flume made of wood 20 miles long in steep rocky mountainous wilderness inhabited only by grisley [sic] bears, deer, and coyotes. It will convey water from Stanislaus River to Columbia region, which is rich in gold but requires water to extract it. Labor is furnished by unpaid miners, who also pay for equipment in exchange for shares in the Company; when system is operating, they will pay for use of the water to work their claims. As the only Surveyor here, it fell to me to engineer, design, and lay out the whole project. “There is no place like California for freedom of action and scope for enterprise.” Longs to hear more of the Great Exhibition and the Chrysal [sic] Palace in England “as every American paper is full of it.”
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project