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Herschel12782

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Harris
Date:
[1 October 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0186; Reel 1054
Summary:

H. D. Harness no longer resides at Mint. Explains division of JH's taxes between Collingwood and London residence at Harley Street.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0805

From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 October 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/102, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0804

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/571; MS JT/1/HTYP/269, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel804

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richarda Airy
Date:
[3 October 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 2.10
Summary:

Making arrangements to send two of JH's sons to Greenwich, so that G. B. Airy can take them to Woolwich [Arsenal] to watch mortar practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001606

From:
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
4 October 1853
Source of text:
MM/21/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall0806

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
5th Oct 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/572; MS JT/1/HTYP/270-71, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0807

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/626, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Oct 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 149
Summary:

Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1534

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
10 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]

and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Oct 1853]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984)
Summary:

Returning JDH’s MS and books.

Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
11 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D19)
Summary:

Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall0808

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/926; MS JT/1/HTYP/272, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3528

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[12 October 1853]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.361
Summary:

Hopes JL will call application of JH's brother-in-law for position of Secretary of Bank of Asia to attention of a director, who is JL's relative.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 128
Summary:

Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.

Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001690

From:
George Peacock
To:
[John Dunn Gardner]
Date:
14 October 1853
Source of text:
MM/22/27, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall0809

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
15th. Oct. 1853.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/573; MS JT/1/HTYP/273, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

JHC1315

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 October 1853
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel7022

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.267
Summary:

Has found a seventeenth-century mathematical manuscript amongst Francis Baily's papers with JH's handwriting on it; can he explain the mystery? There is also a letter from P. L. M. Maupertius to James Bradley, which he proposes sending to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001598

From:
Samuel Hunter Christie
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie, Royal Society
Date:
17 October 1853
Source of text:
MM/21/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall0810

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
17th Oct. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/574; MS JT/1/HTYP/274, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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