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DCP-LETT-1511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
1 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.

Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14550

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.10; Reel 1093
Summary:

Delays question of hiring Mr. Pilcher. Proceed with planning for Sydney branch mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0738

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
2nd April
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/887, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13030

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[2 April 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0443; Reel 1055
Summary:

Letter of recommendation, praising JS's character and talent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12539

From:
Henry Piddington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.409
Summary:

Note accompanying more meteorological writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0739

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/886; MS JT/1/HTYP/234, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11914

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.276
Summary:

Wishes to apply for the vacancy that has occurred in the Superintendance of the Nautical Almanac, and would welcome JH's support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3305

From:
John Allen Slater
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.214
Summary:

Asks about precise link between rotation and revolution of satellites, and its relation to belief in existence of God.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6495

From:
Matthew Collins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.261
Summary:

Encloses pamphlets and would be pleased with any remarks of approbation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0740

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 7. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/46; MS JT/1/TYP/676, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0741

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 8. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/47; MS JT/1/TYP/677, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
9 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106)
Summary:

Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000758

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
10 April 1853
Source of text:
MM/12/78, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall0743

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/884; MS JT/1/HHTYP/238, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0742

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/492; MS JT/1/HTYP/235-236, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0744

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 11 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/48; MS JT/1/TYP/678-79, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1513

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
11 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/60)
Summary:

Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13)
Summary:

Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.

Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.

Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7017

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[11 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.130
Summary:

Asks for the experience of other countries in introducing decimal coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11302

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.206
Summary:

Thanks for his kind invitation. Returns to Paris on Thursday or Friday. Best wishes to Lady Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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