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From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1852]
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

A response to JH's actions in seeking a position for [?] Taylor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 November 1852
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/64.2
Summary:

No summary available.

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

Thanks JDD for information.

Discusses Acasta sporillus.

Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].

Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.

Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.

Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
25 November 1852
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Herbert
Date:
25 November 1852
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/54
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 November 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 9
Summary:

Discusses plan to get a government pension for the Berwick-upon-Tweed naturalist George Johnston and asks JSH for a testimonial. Explains that Johnston has given away earnings to his brother and others in need.

Mentions that he has not heard from their ‘lost Friend’, this is probably George Ransome, who left his position as Honorary Secretary of the Ipswich Museum after incurring debts.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 November 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
James B Bevington
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Novbr 1852
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/93, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
27 November 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIX.36e
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
28th Nov. 1852
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/556, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0552.43; Reel 1093
Summary:

Lord Chandos [Richard Grenville] wants to know superannuation deductions and pension expectations of Mint workmen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project