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Faraday2607

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 December 1852
Source of text:
UB MS NS 405
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14035

From:
Henry Drury Harness
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0267.12; Reel 1087
Summary:

Apologizes for unclear language in a recent letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58)
Summary:

Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000747

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
18 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Tyndall0693

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
Sunday 19th Dec
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, StBPL T&F
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:

Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000749

From:
David Brewster
To:
C R Weld
Date:
20 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/69, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2609

From:
Joseph John William Watson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 December 1852
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/64.4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2608

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph John William Watson
Date:
20 December 1852
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1271

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles R. Bree
Date:
21 December 1852
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel9866

From:
James A. Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.200
Summary:

Was pleased to hear the good news. There have been movements in the political world. Had a long talk with George Gordon (4th Earl of A[berdeen]). Hopes Lady Herschel has recovered.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-1272

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles R. Bree
Date:
22 December 1852
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000748

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
22 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/68, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000750

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
22 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/70, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Tyndall0694

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
Thursday
Source of text:
27/25, RDS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13282

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
23?] December [1852
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0536.4; Reel 1053
Summary:

Will try to get away tomorrow in time to join Gordons for trip to Collingwood [for Christmas]. Request from MH's milliner. Happy that MH patched things over with Stevensons. MH's letter to Mrs. Maclear was returned.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000751

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
24 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2610

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 December 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP1636

From:
John Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
24 December 1852
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/104
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/7
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

John Wallace describes for his mother the progress of the large engineering venture: building water supply flume to provide vitally needed water to the gold mining vicinity around Columbia, California. Complains he has received no letters from home in ten months. Rainy season came early, and they now have 18 miles of fluming done, plus 30 miles of ditching; has cost our company about $350,000, but we’re “all in good spirits...it will pay amply in the end.” Losses from flooding and smallpox among crew. Notices news that the Duke of Wellington has died.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.

Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.

Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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