Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Maria Drummond
Date:
11 May 1858
Source of text:
APS Misc MS Collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
11 May 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-5073
Summary:
Comments briefly on the positioning of magnetic observatories. Unsure whether he understands Humphrey Lloyd's proposal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
12 May 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 178
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.4 (C: RGO 6.694.494)
Summary:
Reacts to JH's suggestions [see JH's 1858-5-[10]] for altering GA's responses [see GA's 1858-5-4] to Edward Sabine's report on magnetic observatories [includes a silly riddle, apparently passed on from Augustus De Morgan].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1858-5-12 or earlier
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.492
Summary:
Suggests GA alter some phraseology and tone in his response [see GA's 1858-5-4] to Edward Sabine's report on magnetic observatories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.5(C: RGO 6.694.496)
Summary:
Provides a more detailed response to Edward Sabine's report on magnetic observatories [see GA's 1858-5-12].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 26
Summary:
Relates events at home;
hopes WED gets the scholarship.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/644; MS JT/1/HTYP/512, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
c.14 May 1858
Source of text:
RGO 6/169, f.260
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B1b
Summary:
[Six fragments, mainly diagrams.] The geometry of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 May [1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.5; Reel 1093
Summary:
Forwards report, just received, of three years of lunar diurnal variation at Cape of Good Hope. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julian Tenison Woods
Date:
15 May 1858
Source of text:
Archives, Sisters of St Joseph, Perthville, NSW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Norton Shaw
Date:
15 May 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Correspondence, Block 1851-60, Mueller
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
15 May 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 179
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1858
Source of text:
RGO 6/169, f.261
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 May [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 235
Summary:
Arranges meeting with JDH at Thatched House Tavern.
Eager for JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
17 May 1858
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 28
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
18 May [1858]
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 255
Summary:
CD’s health has been poor owing to hard work [on Natural selection]. He has to treat of every branch of natural history, which is beyond his strength.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.6 (C: RGO 6.694.498)
Summary:
Has looked at the magnetic observations made at the Cape, and comments on their usefulness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project