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DCP-LETT-1070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[7 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.59)
Summary:

Has received copy of CL’s Principles [7th ed.].

Comments on reading Annales des sciences naturelles.

David Milne’s and Robert Chambers’ views on Glen Roy.

Mentions sales of South America.

Describes visit to his father at Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6964

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.235
Summary:

Giving details of Thatcham Church and of the tablet, which is to be erected in memory of Francis Baily. Sculptor will be sending proof of the inscription.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1964

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
9 March 1847
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4142

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[9 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 307 (C: RS:HS 22.307)
Summary:

Asks WS to take the chair at the next meeting of the R.A.S [probably concerning the Adams-Leverrier dispute].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1070F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: 1847 XXXIV.253–6
Summary:

Memorial presented by members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other scientific societies, submitting that natural history is inadequately provided for by the present constitution of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall0328

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of the Sligo Champion
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13a/185, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3197

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[11 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.143 (C: RS:HS 22.308)
Summary:

Notes that actinometer observations prove faulty due to problem with instruments. Asks that WS notify Indian observatories to join others in terminating such observations until JH finds method of getting around problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12019

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James P. Muirhead
Date:
[12 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.381 & 22.309
Summary:

Thanks for sending his book on the Correspondence of James Watt. Hopes to give it the attention it deserves, but meanwhile comments on the water controversy of Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, and James Watt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9633

From:
John Forbes, D.D.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.372
Summary:

Believes he has succeeded in integrating elliptic and hyperbolic functions in finite terms, and sends a paper in which this is discussed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
[13 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.392 (C: 22.310)
Summary:

George III defrayed all costs (£4000) for William Herschel's 40-feet reflecting telescope. JH began dismantling it in Dec. 1839. Lenses and equipment are in storage. Tube's internal structure of corrugated iron and framework's diagonal bracing were originated by WH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1071

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 82
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[17 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.311
Summary:

Proposal of giving medals to both J. C. Adams and U. J. J. Leverrier by William Whewell turned down by R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1965

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Codrington
Date:
18 March 1847
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11402

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.313
Summary:

Sends a work for JH; would he also present the other copy to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1967

From:
Fourth Duke of Northumberland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 March 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1966

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
19 March 1847
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11197

From:
[Karl] Herman Knoblauch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.86
Summary:

Sending treatises on radiant heat for the R.S.L. and JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav von Leonhard
Date:
20 Mar [1847]
Source of text:
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg (Historisches Archiv Signatur V)
Summary:

Honoured by GL’s review of Volcanic islands.

Sends copy [of South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
21 Mar [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Sends copy of South America.

Will consult BS’s article in the Bulletin.

Recommends article by Daniel Sharpe ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105].

Cites his description of thin laminae in volcanic rocks in Volcanic islands. Suggests similar process may have affected metamorphic schists.

Thanks him for offer of his book [Lehrbuch der physikalischen Geographie und Geologie (1844–7)]. Since he reads German poorly, BS should send book only if short and inexpensive.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1967a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Charles Henry
Date:
22 March 1847
Source of text:
LU
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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