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FVM-57-04-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Francis
Date:
April 1857
Source of text:
Board of Governors minute book, 1855-75, p. 56, Library, Botanic Gardens, Adelaide
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-57-04-00a

From:
Walter Hill
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
April 1857
Source of text:
MEL 19047, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel6330

From:
Hannah M. Bouvier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.92
Summary:

Thanks for his favorable comments on her book. Sends proof sheets as part of her forthcoming book on authors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7062

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[1 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.192
Summary:

Reading proofs of JH's Essays Q. E. R.; working on an article on meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7063

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.296
Summary:

Sending a little joke on a political theme. Further regarding a query of JH's on a rabbit. Gives a problem on a polygon. Meteorology is peculiar as weather does not appear to be governed by any laws.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10925

From:
Henry James
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.271
Summary:

Is glad he likes the idea of projecting more than a hemisphere. Compares his own projection and a stereoscopic projection and comments on the results. Is now having another projection made that should give an accurate map of America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1365

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2542, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3265

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
3 April 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/77 and Parliamentary Papers, 1862 (489) LIV, p.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1366

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
Friday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2543, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel2372

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[3 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.241 (C: RS:HS 23.193)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his paper. Sun spot activity should increase in 1857. Discusses his own earlier ideas concerning relationship between sun spots and Aurora Borealis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10926

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry James
Date:
[3 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.272 & 23.194
Summary:

Thanks for his letter and projection. Compares it with one of his own devising and encloses a chart of the isothermal lines of the Northern hemisphere. Has used a different system for his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8920

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[3 April 1857]
Source of text:
London Times (April 6, 1857), p. 12, col. 4.
Summary:

Urges that observations be made of sunspots. Notes that sunspots are much more evident now than in 1856. [Written by JH under the pseudonym 'Helioscopus']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2071

From:
Edwards Crisp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 221
Summary:

Reports on wheat in the stomach of fish he caught.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1367

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
4th April 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/639; MS JT/1/HTYP/494-5, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3266

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
François Napoleon Marie Moigno
Date:
4 April 1857
Source of text:
AS MS Collection Bertrand
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3267

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
4 April 1857
Source of text:
RI MS G31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
5 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Summary:

Asks whether Crustacea from temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere are more strongly analogous to those in same latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere than are Arctic to Antarctic Crustacea.

Discusses astonishing finds of mammalian and reptilian remains in Purbeck beds; notes reactions of Lyell.

Has doubts about Richard Owen’s recent classification of mammals [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].

Works away [on Natural selection].

Asa Gray has given valuable assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1368

From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2602, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel2373

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.242
Summary:

Glad to know which of ES's papers JH has. Sends another along with maps from [Keith] Johnson's Physical Atlas. Discusses JH's ideas regarding relationship between solar spots and magnetic disturbances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2374

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.243
Summary:

Mentions [P.] Plantamour's memoir on barometer and a criticism by Mr. Dilams[?]. Comprehending why variations of magnetic disturbances correspond in period with terrestrial year is difficult.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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