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Herschel8916

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[6 July 1853]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #1341 (July 9, 1853), 83 & Journal of the Photographic Society, 1:8
Summary:

Requests publication of a letter [see John Stewart's 1853-6-11] that JH received from Stewart and in which Stewart explains a method of 'taking from glass negatives positive impressions of different dimensions.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1521

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

Will quote CSB on discovery of Alcippe lampas.

Hopes CSB continues to look for Verruca on limestone.

Discusses use of CSB’s larvae illustrations [for Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-53-07-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
7 July 1853
Source of text:
A251 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday2698

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 July 1853
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4018
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall0783

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
MS JT/TYP/12/4018; 4:2699, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2699

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 July 1853
Source of text:
UB MS NS 406
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2700

From:
Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 July 1853
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001507

From:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
11 July 1853
Source of text:
MM/19/111, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall0784

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Hirst
Date:
Wednesday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/987; MS JT/1/HTYP/248-49, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13849

From:
Henry Finch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0197; Reel 1087
Summary:

HF and F. R. Brande received similar appointments, but HF's annual salary is £100 while Brande's is £150. Asks JH to raise HF's salary to £150. [JH annotation: Replied on 19 July.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-678

From:
F. J. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 July 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10484

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.362
Summary:

What would JH like done with the column 'Equinoctial Time' in the Nautical Almanac?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-53-07-16

From:
Lewis Gilles
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 July 1853
Source of text:
No. 3080, 8007, unit 20, p. 271, 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

DCP-LETT-1523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 July 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 127
Summary:

Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1522

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 July [1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 84)
Summary:

Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".

Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP6628

From:
John Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
18 July 1853
Source of text:
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/106
Summary:

In response to family requests for his picture as a rough, full-bearded miner, has had a Deguerreotype [sic] of himself made “in a medium state...passing from the rough barbarian state of early Californian life to the more peaceful and mild state of civilization.” Emphasizes that he is not a miner, but chief Engineer to the Toulumne County Water Company which supplies great quantities of necessary water in to hundreds of mines. Happy to report that his Company is a success. Requests picture of them in turn. Brother helped him (by letter) calculate the amount of water discharged to be 11 ½ million gallons every 24 hours. Describes system of reservoir and delivery system, which frequently is disrupted, sometimes flooding the town. Expresses interest in fad for mind over matter experiment, later known as telekinsesis.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1638

From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 July 1853
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/11 WP1/3/96/12
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel13850

From:
Henry Finch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 July 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0198; Reel 1087
Summary:

Disappointed by JH's response. Believes HF's case is identical to that of F. R. Brande. Lists benefits accruing to Brande that HF does not have. Asks JH to reconsider raise in HF's salary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0785

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
July 19th 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/257, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2701

From:
Robert Espie
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 July 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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