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From:
?
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
22 août 1831
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 393ter., Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Laurent-François Feuillet
Date:
20 août 1831
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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From:
Fred Calvert
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 220
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Fred Calvert
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 226
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 Aug 1831
Source of text:
MSB1 / 234, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Charles Bell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 August 1831
Source of text:
New York Academy of Medicine MS 435
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
1 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 42)
Summary:
Will send his insects and two or three from Henslow.
The Canary scheme takes place next June.
Is grieved WDF thinks him capable of telling falsehoods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
30 [Aug 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 2 DAR/1/1/2)
Summary:
Feels he should decline Beagle voyage offer because of his father’s objections, which he lists. Would otherwise have taken all risks.
[Geological] trip with Adam Sedgwick a success.
Grieved at Marmaduke Ramsay’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10
Summary:
CD asks his father to consider the offer of the Beagle voyage once more. He encloses his list of RWD’s objections and Josiah Wedgwood’s responses [see 109]. Asks his father to give him a decided answer: if "no" he will never again mention the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
30–1 Aug 1831
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:
CD has had an offer to go on a voyage of discovery for two years. RWD objects strongly, but will let CD make his case and if JW agrees with CD, RWD will change his position. In a postscript RWD adds, "Charles has quite given up … the voyage."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.101
Summary:
Regrets that JH could not dine with him and John Brinkley (Bishop of Cloyne). Has had a letter from the Admiralty about a grant to [T. J.?] Hussey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.318
Summary:
Would like his opinion regarding a matter concerning [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue. Would he care to write the preface?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Green
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 August 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 223
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
14 August 1831
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.206: 63
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2):4–5
Summary:
JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.407
Summary:
About JG's travel plans, and about JH's Prelim. Discourse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James McCullagh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.9
Summary:
Sending some papers that will appear in the Irish Transactions, on the intensity of light. If JH agrees would he send it on to one of the scientific journals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 August 1831
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I046
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Tierney Clark
Date:
2 August 1831
Source of text:
GLRO Acc 2558 / WM / 1 / 8 / 1, p.180-1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Tierney Clark
Date:
3 August 1831
Source of text:
GLRO Acc 2558 / WM / 1 / 8 / 1, p.182-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project