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Herschel2392

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.251
Summary:

Plan of Colonial Office submitted to R.S.L. does not yet have a 'definite or practical shape.' Recommends JH as best person to aid in matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2391

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.250
Summary:

Encloses letter from Colonial Office to R.S.L., which was referred to ES because [B. C.] Brodie was out of town. Brodie hopes to see JH when JH comes to London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-11-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Service
Date:
12 November 1859
Source of text:
No. 6088, unit 3, VPRS 227 inward correspondence register, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1397

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.40
Summary:

Partial repeat of letter of 1859-11-10, together with some considerations about the molecular behavior producing fluorescence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1648

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Nov/59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/118; MS JT/TYP/3/988, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2526

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1859
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".

Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1647

From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 12. /59
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, ff. 16-227v, BL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10432

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.286
Summary:

Reports on a meeting of the R.A.S., mostly talking about sun spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3153

From:
Thomas Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.224
Summary:

Explains and encloses abstract of paper on action of magnetic oxides under various conditions. Discusses their purifying influence on water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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