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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
6 May 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[6 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0663; Reel 1089
Summary:

Must meet Lord Charles [?] this morning. Cannot join [?] and C. E. Trevelyan at Downing Street. Will try to see Charles Fremantle today.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 May 1852
Source of text:
UB MS NS 400
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Date:
7th May 1852
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/399, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 7thh 1852
Source of text:
HP 9.3, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0552.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

Prefers to send entire £50,000 to Cape in gold coins. Will authorize JH next week to obtain another £20,000 in gold coin from Bank [of England] for other shipments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
8 May [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.

Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.

JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.

Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.

Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1852]
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Forwards a letter to JH from Thomas Maclear, and FB comments on several accidents that have occurred at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.132
Summary:

Regarding the absence of his own name from the candidates list for the R.S.L.; thinks there is a clique working against him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.147
Summary:

Illness has prevented an earlier reply thanking him for his introduction to the Governor of Malta. Expects good results in Malta.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 May 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9th May 1852
Source of text:
HP 1.2, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0543.3; Reel 1053
Summary:

Daughters Caroline and Isabella left London yesterday. J. M. Cameron will pick up Julia today. JH stays late at Mint each night, leaving 'Miss R' [Rennie?] at home alone. Mr. Bulstrode agreed to let JH rent residence from month to month.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
10 May 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/162, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 May 1852
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Augustus Abel
Date:
10 May 1852
Source of text:
RSC MS Abel, box 1, file 22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.162
Summary:

Hopes JH can attend meeting of committee on Wintringham Bequest.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.19; Reel 1087
Summary:

Cambridge University Commissioners met today, made progress on issue of Fellowships, and saw copy of [Bessed?] Commission report. Hopes JH can attend tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 May 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0263.6; Reel 1087
Summary:

No assays today. Notified Mint staff that tomorrow is holiday for Queen's birthday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project