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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1863–6?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B34
Summary:

Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Jane Barnard
Date:
1863 to 1868
Source of text:
RI MS JT/1/T/134
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Richard Monckton Milnes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1863-1884
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 66-67
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1863]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/157
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
John Brooke Johnson Brooke (formerly Johnson)
To:
[Johnson, Francis Charles & Johnson (née Brooke), Emma Frances]
Date:
[1863]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/3.98 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

Invites JH to R.A.S. dinner on 9 Jan. to meet Sir G. C. Lewis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.435
Summary:

Received JH's translation of fourth book of Iliad. Will return it with comments in a few days. Attended two or three excellent lectures by JH's son. HH needs to balance mental efforts with more physical activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mary Helen Dawes
Date:
1st January, 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/234, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Cooke
Date:
1 January 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1863
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Ideas respecting gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere—as apart from that of heat or other influence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1863
Source of text:
MM/19/34, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[1863?]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.7
Summary:

Reports on and believes fit for publication paper [R.S.P.T., 153, 309-] by G. B. Airy on diurnal irregularities of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[1 January 1863]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.21 (C: RS:HS 24.1)
Summary:

JH criticizes [Robert] Mallet's views on the nature of earthquakes and the upheaval of the earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[1863?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.8b
Summary:

A short note to comment on photographs son John has sent; also inquires about prospects for the India survey John has discussed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
1863 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.10
Summary:

Remains unconvinced by RF's ideas on gravitating lunisolar action on the atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.61-62, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Letter dated 1863, over two pages.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.245, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.248, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.253, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley to invite him to stay with Hooker at Kew and attend a Linnaean Society lecture given by Thomas Huxley on aphides. Also states that he will introduce Berkeley at the Royal Society when Hooker takes the Chair.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.254, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley to explain the timing of a Royal Society meeting in which Berkeley is to be awarded the Royal Medal. Mentions that William Henslow Hooker has returned to school and will travelled to Hastings.

Contributor:
Hooker Project