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From:
John Phillips
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 July 1850
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/82, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1850]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.132
Summary:

Asks JH to send copy of [T. R.] Robinson's memorial to John Russell on the southern telescope. Robinson's statement 'is wanted' for upcoming council meeting and has not yet arrived.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 December 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Phillips
Date:
7 December 1850
Source of text:
University Museum Oxford MS John Phillips Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 December 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Phillips
Date:
21 December 1850
Source of text:
Bod MS dep BAAS 59, f.47-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 April 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1851
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 June 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 251
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 July 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 252
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 October 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 253
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.21; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH is appointed to a committee that will consider repeating the Balloon Experiments of 1852. William Whewell will head the committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
18 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122)
Summary:

Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
28 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 354
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 246
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[31 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0302; Reel 1054
Summary:

Send names of members of B.A.A.S. committee appointed to cooperate with R.S.L. committee for purpose of procuring continuance of observations of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.22; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards copy of the resolution of the General Committee of the B.A.A.S. concerning the continuation of study of magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February] 1858
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.23; Reel 1093
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd, Thomas Robinson, and Edward Sabine will form a committee to continue studying magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 255
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project