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Herschel14789

From:
[John] M. Field
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1128.3 [p. 52]; Reel 1060
Summary:

Notes change of bars on pieces 26 and 27 prior to their arrival at assay office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1792

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0636.5 (C: RGO 6.341.38)
Summary:

Believes that the increasing use of decimal weights should mean that no further evidence need be taken by the Standards Commission [see JH's 1853-2-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2638

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 February 1853
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall0712

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15th, Feb, 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/TYP/12/4022; 4:2638, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103)
Summary:

Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].

Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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