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DCP-LETT-1547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
18 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2880

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 August 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel265

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.73
Summary:

Responds to JH's interim arrangements [see JH's 1854-8-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4836

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.225
Summary:

Results of observation of transits at Greenwich and Paris.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7862

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.66
Summary:

Additional improvements for new edition of JH's [Examples of Finite Differences (1820)].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13369

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[19 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0598 & -0705; Reel 1089
Summary:

Reports assayers's analyses of Chinese imitations of Spanish coin sent to Treasury by John Bowring [governor of Hong Kong].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7863

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Warburton
Date:
[20 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.67
Summary:

Discusses points raised about equations [see HW's 1854-8-19].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2882

From:
Thomas Byam Martin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c20 August 1854
Source of text:
BL add MS 41370, f.371
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2884

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 August 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2883

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
21 August 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/212, f.329-30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall0963

From:
Thomas Charles Higginson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
August 21st. 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/597, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14580

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0554.10; Reel 1093
Summary:

Inspect enclosed Treasury minutes regarding Robert Mushet, and inform CT if JH has objections. Encloses several papers on Turkish currency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hannah Louisa Bernard; Hannah Louisa Stutchbury
Date:
22 Aug 1854
Source of text:
Matthews 1982, p. 262
Summary:

Arranges to return a collection of cirripedes which belongs to her husband [Samuel Stutchbury].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2885

From:
William Alexander Baillie Hamilton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 August 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13472

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[23 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0706; Reel 1089
Summary:

Reports departure of E. W. Ward, with officers, staff, and machinery for Sydney branch mint. Submits statement of expenses and requests reimbursement for outfitting Sydney mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-383

From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 August 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 105
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel14343

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0504; Reel 1093
Summary:

Just received JH's report on GS's paper on refrangibility of light. Elaborates on lavender and brown rays.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
24 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?

C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.

Discusses returning specimens to AH.

Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1280

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Knights
Date:
24 August 1854
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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