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WCP665

From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
[21] [October] [1863]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418305
Summary:

This passage was published in Stainton, 1864. Travel. The Entomologist's annual vol. 10, pp. [1]-3, all this text appearing on p. 2.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6794

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.111
Summary:

Thanks to JH's note Thomas Cooke was able to visit the Paris Observatory. His own health is slowly improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4135

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.368
Summary:

Informs JH that the Leeds Astronomical Society will print 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre' the day after its presentation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2422

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.272
Summary:

R.S.L. Club locale changed to St. James's Hotel. Wants JH's advice on two papers ES is writing on results from Kew Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4384

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
22 October 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4385

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 October 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12907

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Gustave Augustin Quesneville
Date:
[22 October 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0320; Reel 1054
Summary:

Received four issues of GQ's Moniteur Scientifique. Saw mention in No. 163 of JH's proposed modification to British system of weights and measures. JH's paper on this topic is now before Astronomical Society of Leeds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4321F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Oct [1863?]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4321

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 167–70
Summary:

With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4323

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 78
Summary:

Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]

and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-10-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 October 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel13757

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0110; Reel 1087
Summary:

Read of JH's intention to prepare general catalogue of nebulae. Encloses list of unpublished nebulae found at Harvard over past 15 years. Finds similarity in form but difference in theory between JH's equations for curve of object glasses ['On Aberrations of Compound Lenses and Object Glasses' (1821)] and those of K. A. Steinheil and C. F. Gauss. Asks about Josef Fraunhofer's theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11095

From:
James Prescott Joule
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.430
Summary:

Much obliged for his letters regarding the amalgam of iron. Cannot account for his ignorance of JH's Bakerian lecture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4322

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:

Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6843

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
[Charles] Pritchard
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.151
Summary:

Regarding the 'willow leaves' seen by James Nasmyth on the surface of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-63-10-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
25 October 1863
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha.For a published version of this letter see Voigt (1996) pp. 48-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-63-10-25e

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl Rafn
Date:
25 October 1863
Source of text:
Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-63-10-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
25 October 1863
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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FVM-63-10-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 October 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 42, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2423

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[25 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.21
Summary:

Accepts invitation to dine with ES. Working on sixth edition of Outlines Astr. Has sent argument against converting to metric system to Leeds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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