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Faraday1054a

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 December 1837
Source of text:
Bianchi (1874), 65
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3834

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Experiencing 'a daily increase of pain and feebleness.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3839

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Hopes that JH will receive Friedrich Bessel's paper called 'On the Influence of the Irregularities of the Earth on Geodetic Operations, and their Comparison with Astronomical Determinations.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0966

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 January 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/2/12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE33

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 May 1837
Source of text:
MSB1 / 257, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday1010

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 June 1837
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE34

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
21 Jul 1837
Source of text:
MSB1 / 258, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel6702

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 June 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.19
Summary:

Has received the samples of mineral waters JH sent from the Cape. His own pamphlet on this is now printed. Would be pleased if JH would obtain some bulbs of massonia lutea for him. Rev. Sandys in the area is an intelligent man.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE273

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Herschel
Date:
31 Jan 1837
Source of text:
HS 11.421, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday1016

From:
Charles Saint-Ange Thilorier
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 July 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/1/12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0990

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 April 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 315
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1015

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 July 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 318
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1046

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 320
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1055

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 December 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 321
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[1 Jan 1837]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/1)
Summary:

Enjoyed the merry evening with JMH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[19 Jan 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 142v
Summary:

Declines invitation to dine at Downing College because of influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-346

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
27 Feb 1837
Source of text:
DAR 154: 51
Summary:

Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.

Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2)
Summary:

CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-348

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[12 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 51)
Summary:

Finished going over his geological specimens at Cambridge, and is now in London.

Describes his plans for writing the journal, and later the geology and zoology of the Beagle voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[14 Mar 1837 – 31 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 326)
Summary:

Would have had great pleasure in accepting CB’s invitation, "whether for beauty or for shells", but has another engagement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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