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From:
Thomas Bell
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
c. March 1853
Source of text:
MM/12/77, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 5
Summary:

Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.

Writes of the benefits of reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Forbes Royle
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 March 1853
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[29 February 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.97
Summary:

About MH's continuing illness [see JH's 1853-2-21] and the illness of Mrs. Knowles; some of their children are spending the weekend with JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
-3-1853
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.86, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
March 1853
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/9
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

Will answer some of your questions. ‘I’ve quite given up on making a fortune in California;” but am financially comfortable, will not return to live in England. Was just elected Superintendent and Chief Engineer of our water company, can have the job as long as I want it. Company has provided a horse, “frequently have to ride 25 or 50 miles per day on rough mountain roads” to maintain water system. Doing good business, will soon be out of debt and into profits. Gives specifications of five mile long water flume, and asks family to check his estimates of daily flow. . Will be able to pay back loans soon.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Stevenson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 March 1853
Source of text:
Proc.Roy.Soc., 1853, 6: 291
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
3 March 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
4th Mar
Source of text:
27/6, RDS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.9; Reel 1093
Summary:

[Marked 'Confidential.'] JH's reaction to paper was precisely what CT felt. Plans to communicate it to no one else.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
5 March [1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.13; Reel 1055
Summary:

Has not yet shown to H. D. Harness the paper referred to in JH's note to CT yesterday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Stevenson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 March 1853
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Sunday. 1853
Source of text:
HP 8:11; MS JT/TYP/9/2858a, IC; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Robert Bunsen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6n Maerz 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/144, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 6th / 53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/177; MS JT/1/HTYP/230-231, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
[7 March 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0090; Reel 1054
Summary:

Recommendations for design and construction of new telescope proposed by R.S.L. for Southern Hemisphere. Need to coordinate observations in both hemispheres.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 7th 1853
Source of text:
HP 8:12; MS JT/TYP/9/2862, IC; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 8. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/43; MS JT/1/TYP/673, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
8 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A21–A24
Summary:

CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lewis Gilles
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 March 1853
Source of text:
No. S53/1212, 53/2731, unit 20, p. 187, VPRS 3219 outward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project