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Herschel3047

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.202
Summary:

Takes a moment to write. Sends various brochures and observations on magnetic intensity in Germany. Asks JH to give a copy of it to [Charles] Babbage and [Henry] Kater. Congratulates JH on being named correspondent to the Institute of France. Lost his father-in-law. Has asked [James] South to press construction of AQ's instruments, but no luck. Requests JH visit Edward Troughton and the instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3048

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.203
Summary:

Announces second volume of translation of JH's Light is out in Paris. Is sending a copy. Work progresses slowly. Problems because of revolution. AQ's collaborator [P. F.] Verhulst is very ill. Will leave for Italy soon. Discusses his previous trip to Germany. Saw [William] Whewell. Has received Astronomical Society's memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L744

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Boubée de Lespée
Date:
21 mai 1830
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 956.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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L745

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jean-Jacques Ampère (fils d'Ampère)
Date:
23 mai 1830
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 713-714.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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HENSLOW-119

From:
G. A. W. Arnott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 May 1830
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 143
Summary:

Discusses planned trip to the Scottish Highlands with William Jackson Hooker and his hopes to explore in Breadalbane area.

Responds to JSH’s Salix request list, together with other plant requests, and asks for specimens. Discusses observations of Salix fragilis and Russelliana in the Edinburgh region.

Responds to JSH’s offer of plant specimens. Provides a list of species, stating that it only covers Cambridgeshire deficiencies in his British specimen collection.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-118

From:
J. J. Audubon
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 May 1830
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 142
Summary:

Has just returned to England from America and been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Acknowledges receipt of money in return for works delivered to JSH.

Has completed 50 drawings in America as improvements on The Birds of America and asks JSH for help with increasing subscriptions. Comments on animal specimens.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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L746

From:
Claude-Julien Bredin
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
25 mai 1830.
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 714.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

DCP-LETT-80

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 May 1830]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 29)
Summary:

Very sorry WDF was obliged to go to Cheltenham with his parents instead of coming to Cambridge, for the weather is fine, the beetles numerous. Adds news of friends and facts about his collection of insects.

Thinks of reading divinity with Henslow the summer after next.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-81

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[31 May 1830]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 30)
Summary:

Glad WDF will visit him in Shrewsbury.

Hope visited CD; he and T. C. Eyton want CD to join them on an entomological trip to N. Wales; can WDF come?

William Yarrell has discovered a new wild swan in England; CD has had bad specimen of it stuffed for WDF.

Adds brief news of friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12186

From:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.44
Summary:

Has received the R.S.P.T. Also comments on several chemical matters, including isomorphism and crystallization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8044

From:
Eliza Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.311
Summary:

Will send engraving of late husband, Thomas Young, to JH. Hudson Gurney nearly finished with memoir. When will JH be done? Wishes to announce biography of Young.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6191

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.316
Summary:

Has had a letter from Henry Foster regarding his pendulum experiments at Ascension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L1040

From:
François Clerc
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
26 mai 1830
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 311ter., Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

Herschel4658

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.42
Summary:

Wants JH's views on a 20-foot reflector. Inviting him to Cambridge. With this letter he encloses Volume 2 of the Cambridge Observatory's Observations and Lectures in Optics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0444

From:
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 May 1830
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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L747

From:
Jean-Jacques Ampère (fils d'Ampère)
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
26 mai 1830
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 714.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

RS-MM-000511

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
15 May 1830
Source of text:
MM/10/35, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE239

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
15? May? 1830?
Source of text:
HS 16.336, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Herschel2645

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.336
Summary:

Sending back part of manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens] for criticism. Hopes Mrs. Herschel and baby are well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project, Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0444a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry
Date:
6 May 1830
Source of text:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, MS 26, folder 1, item 122
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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