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Herschel13780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Henry Bateson]
Date:
[11 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0130.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Returns three letters [related to Cambridge University Commission], approved and signed. JH is 'utterly incapacitated from writing.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-M55-05-12

From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
12 May 1855
Source of text:
Archiv der Universität, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-55-05-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
13 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q423 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a copy of this letter see No. 55/4828, 4/3351 letters received, Colonial Secretary's Office, Archives Authority of New South Wales, Sydney. The copy is in A. Gregory's hand and is exact except for some minor changes in punctuation, spelling and word order
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1085

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
13th May
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/601, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11303

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.207
Summary:

Was in London last week, but was unable to see JH as he had returned to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-55-05-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
14 May 1855
Source of text:
Unit 1, VPRS 84 inward correspondence, VA 928 Melbourne Public Library, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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HENSLOW-1126

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
14 May 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday2982a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Friedrich Wöhler
Date:
14 May 1855
Source of text:
Wolfgang Klose
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP1292

From:
Mary Elizabeth Podger Wallace (née Webster)
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
14 May 1855
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/18
Summary:

One of a set of excerpts of letters providing in-depth descriptions John Wallace's life in the gold mining town of Columbia, California, building a system to bring water to gold mining operations in the town.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001572

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
15 May 1855
Source of text:
MM/21/6, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1681

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [May 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 147
Summary:

CD upset because salted seeds do not float.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-55-05-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
16 May 1855
Source of text:
Unit 1, VPRS 84 inward correspondence, VA 928 Melbourne Public Library, Public Record Office, Victoria.MS address: 'His Honor Judge Barry &c. &c. &c. | Melbourne'
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M55-05-16

From:
Henry Gregory
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
16 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q423 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel13826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Thomas Graham]
Date:
[16 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0173.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encloses papers sent to JH from Treasury. R. F. Suft has responses from principal bankers in England; send copies of these at once to [James] Wilson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13824

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
G. Russell
Date:
[16 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0172.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Circular regarding coinage of florins, approved by W. E. Gladstone, plus enquiry sent to English bankers and JH's abstract of replies from bankers, are all stored at Mint. [James] Wilson may obtain copies there. Will forward GR's letter of 14 May 1855 to Mint and ask that these papers be located.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6545

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.291
Summary:

Regarding the non-arrival of his star catalogues. Thinks that four volumes will finish the observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 91)
Summary:

Asks WDF to induce schoolboys to collect eggs of lizards and snakes for him. He will see whether they float and stay alive on sea-water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-398

From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 May 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday2983

From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 May 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.03
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-55-05-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
20 May 1855
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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