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FVM-52-04-00

From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
April 1852
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) p. 156
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-1496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Apr 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 107: 66–7
Summary:

Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.

Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.

[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13993

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0263.5; Reel 1087
Summary:

JH's illness. Accounts are not ready for JH's signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1291

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-4-1852
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1292

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-4-1852
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Three page letter over 1 folio.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel13692

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.17; Reel 1087
Summary:

Meeting of Cambridge University Commissioners for 6 Apr. is postponed to 20 Apr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14517

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0552.21; Reel 1093
Summary:

Wants to discuss three topics when JH has time to call on CT. [JH annotation: 'Pistrucci; Superannuation; Deficits in the Exchequer credit accounts.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2509

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles De La Pryme
Date:
3 April 1852
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2510

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
3 April 1852
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13887

From:
William Richard Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0234; Reel 1087
Summary:

Asks JH to grant permission for WH's son and friends to tour Mint. Hopes business with Benedetto Pistrucci will be settled soon. [JH annotation: JH also wants Pistrucci business settled, but latest developments lead JH to expect anything but a satisfactory conclusion.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0614

From:
John Tyndall
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
5th April 1852
Source of text:
Incoming letters 1852, no. 33, StA JDF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3517

From:
Edward A. Seymour
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.193
Summary:

Thanks for work recently sent and generally for astronomical discoveries. Sends two 'little works' for JH's inspection.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1376

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.27
Summary:

Asks JH questions about a paper on the dispersion of light from beyond the visible violet end of spectrum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12899

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Benedetto Pistrucci
Date:
[6 April 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0311; Reel 1093
Summary:

Informs BP that the Treasury has approved his pension request. JH declines to mention BP's refusal to accept a salary from the Treasury, a statement made in haste.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0615

From:
William Francis
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/550, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14518

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0552.22; Reel 1093
Summary:

Call on CT today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1478A

From:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1852
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

His difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469]. There is no Lepas mitra in the Lorenz Spengler collection. He undertakes to compare the specimens of Balanus sent by CD with those of Spengler.

He thanks CD for his book [Fossil Cirripedia (1851)].

His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr Worsaae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2511

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 April 1852
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11254

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.145
Summary:

Intends to use JH's names for the satellites of Uranus in a communication unless JH has any objections.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2513

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 April 1852
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/50&51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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