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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[4 January 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.3
Summary:

Thanks GS for his paper on fluorescent spectra; JH is interested in having these rays used on quartz, hoping to find his 'thermic' rays acting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
J. F. Julius Schmidt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.177
Summary:

Sends work on shooting stars. Requests all information on telescopic meteors. Realizes that the frequency (nombre horaire) and the variation (variation horaire) of the shooting stars remains unknown. Hopes for global cooperation in this matter. Sends work on total solar eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Joseph John William Watson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 January 1853
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/64.5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0553.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

What quantity of copper coins for Ireland and colonies should be called for in bids? Estimate at least 300 tons for Ireland. What quantity in sterling is equivalent to one ton of copper pence, halfpence, and farthings? What colony ordered half- and quarter-farthings? [JH annotation: Ton of copper = £224. Ionian Isles and Ceylon use small copper coins.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 January 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
7 January 1853
Source of text:
BeRO MS D/EBy F48 109/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Richard Carter
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Jany, 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/C/61, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Nils Andersson
Date:
7 January 1853
Source of text:
Andersson Saml., Centre for History of Science, Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 January 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 January 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.1; Reel 1053
Summary:

Frightened by MH's account of daughter Amelia's serious burns. Encloses revised account sheet that shows £196 missing. Son William will come to Collingwood soon. Saw daughter Caroline yesterday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
9th January. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/558; MS JT/1/HHTYP/224-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[9 January 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.9.76
Summary:

Asks for William Lassell's address in Malta, as JH's son, William, may be able to stop in to visit Lassell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
10 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Hay Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.147
Summary:

Sending letters of introduction for JH's son [William] when he visits India and wishing him success in his appointment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:

Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.

Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.

AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph John William Watson
Date:
10 January 1853
Source of text:
Roy G. Neville
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
10?] January [1853
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0536.15; Reel 1053
Summary:

Thank daughter Isabella for account of Amelia Herschel's condition. Bank [of England] is in trouble again. Lists [Christmas] cards received. Attended Michael Faraday's wonderful lecture last night.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Wallace
To:
Wallace (née Greenell), Mary Ann & Alfred & Fanny & Thomas
Date:
10 January 1853
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/105
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/8
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

“Grieved to hear of the great loss my brother has suffered.” Unfortunately, fires at sea and shipwreck have become common. He will survive “and the name of Sir Alfred Wallace may [yet] shine forth.” Columbia is a gold mining community of fifteen thousand inhabitants, and is growing rapidly based on the achievements of our Company in providing water for the mines. Miners mostly get their own way. Foreigners are supposed to have a right to employment if they pay a state tax, but “Chinese and Mexicans are not allowed by the miners to work at all...and they carry out their ideas of liberty and equality by driving them out.” But our Company would not be pushed around when some miners protested that our rates are too high. I told them we must maintain current prices, and cut off the most prominent activists from buying water at any price, which deterred other “insolent” complainers.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Margaret Allen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 11th / 53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/69, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project