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From:
Joseph Jopling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.416
Summary:

Sending diagrams of Halley's Comet traced from a work, The Orbs of Heaven.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Pierre Antoine Favre
Date:
1 February 1854
Source of text:
Pierpont Morgan Library, Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, Science no. 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.56
Summary:

Very depressed and concerned about the family finances, both short and long term.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1854-2-1 to 15
Source of text:
JHS 1.57
Summary:

Has recovered from his depression [see JH's 1854-2-1]; sees a possibility of a new position as a Civil Service appointment examiner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1854-2].
Source of text:
JHS 1.110
Summary:

JH feels harassed by life and finds solace in MH's letters; thinks electricity could operate the Jacquard loom and the pianoforte. Argues against a recent book [William Whewell's Of the Plurality of Worlds], which claims the earth is the only inhabited body in the universe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1854-2]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20790 (C: RS:HS 23.140)
Summary:

Comments on Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay. Suspects it is by WW. Disagrees with many parts, but finds some sections 'striking.' Laments that he has no time for intellectual matters, punning that he must concentrate on 'making money.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
-2?-1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.98-99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
2 February 1854
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.65: 33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3. Febr. 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
[3] [February] [1854]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Archibald Billing
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 26
Summary:

Explains the difference between the terms bort and carbonate with reference to jewellery manufacture and offers to send JSH more bort dust.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/5/10/664, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
Date:
[4 February 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.294 & 23.143
Summary:

Considers the education of the lower orders an honorable object, but has never given a public lecture and feels unable to assist.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[4 February 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0108.3; Reel 1054
Summary:

Send books from Cutting Room. JH wants to question W. H. Barton about deficits in Coining Room. [Two assistants] will be in on Monday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 390)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his note [missing]. CD had understood that what was wanted was a eulogy [of Leopold von Buch] combined with historical criticism, after the French practice. Agrees that historico-critical sketches of work of great foreigners have a place in Philosophical Transactions and wishes he had taste and capacity for it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 5th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/191; MS JT/1/HTYP/309-310, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 February 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Johann Konrad Bromeis
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Februar 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/133, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project