From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Spring-Rice
Date:
15 [May?] 1857
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0264; Reel 1054
Summary:
Responds to questions by Lord Overstone [on decimal coinage]. TS may edit these as needed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.204
Summary:
Further account clarification [see SE's 1857-4-28].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 197
Summary:
Asks JDH’s opinion, and botanical evidence, on important law: parts that are highly developed in comparison to other allied species are very variable.
Interest in hairiness of alpine plants revived by reading A. Moquin-Tandon [Éléments de tératologie végétale (1841)]; correlation with dryness. CD seeks interpretation independent of direct environmental effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Lucas Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[16 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.200
Summary:
On some odd results JH has arrived at about P. S. Laplace's barometric formula.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2548-8a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
18 May 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 161
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
18 May 1857
Source of text:
RGO 6/471, f.187
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
18 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Robert Lucas Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 May [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Lists pigeons and poultry he is forwarding to WBT.
Wants details of WBT’s Poultry book [1856–7]
and is anxious to purchase his long-winged runt.
Thanks him for help and information on fowl crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 May 1857
Source of text:
RGO 6/471, f.188-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.297
Summary:
Returns his cancel, which he found very amusing. Mrs. De Morgan is now at Hampstead suffering from an incurable complaint. Further comments on the beats of musical consonances and Robert Smith's theories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
20 May 1857
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
20 May 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no.162
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
20 May 1857
Source of text:
RGO 6/471, f.192
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Cresswell Cresswell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 May 1857
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.233a (C: RGO 6.377.431)
Summary:
Note accompanying forwarding of a paper by Otto Struve, and other minor matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Hay Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.148
Summary:
Thanks for the valuable gift of his Essays Q.E.R. Has just moved into this cottage and would welcome a visit from JH when in the neighborhood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project