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Herschel1692

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.178
Summary:

Note accompanying one of AS's publications on South African zoology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1100

From:
Charles Mayne Young
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-000466

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
1 July 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1589

From:
Fr[iedrich ?] Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0808
Summary:

Appears to be an attempt to establish a family connection to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1102

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14686

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0626.2; Reel 1084
Summary:

Announces 7 July meeting of Standard Commission at R.A.S. apartments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-421A

From:
Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/5)
Summary:

Sends to CD, as Secretary of the Geological Society, his work on fossil shells ["Mémoire sur les coquilles fossiles", Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 10 (1838): 92–152].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2887

From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.378
Summary:

Received JH's note from Belvedere Hotel. Mentions various arrangements regarding JH's European journey, including JH's planned visit to Wilhelm Olbers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2888

From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.379
Summary:

Unless other responsibilities interfere, HS will meet JH in Bremen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2889

From:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.380
Summary:

In compliance with JH's request, HS did not go to Bremen to meet JH. Hopes JH will visit him in Altona and stay at his house.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12323

From:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.180
Summary:

Is making arrangements for JH's visit to WO, during a continental tour by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1098

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
2 July 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.487
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1101

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel March Phillipps
Date:
19 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1104

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
30 July 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 324
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8163

From:
Mrs. Witte
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.430
Summary:

Please send J. H. Mädler's sketch of fortresses that F. P. Gruithuisen claims to have discovered on moon. Formed another 'moon ball of 12 inches.' Will send piece to JH after he returns to England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1099

From:
Samuel March Phillipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1103

From:
Samuel March Phillipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8647

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[4 July] 1838
Source of text:
Paul Luther
Summary:

Is leaving England very shortly, so cannot meet to discuss the correspondent's Indian Survey. Provides advice on various metrological matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13298

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9] July 1838
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.1; Reel 1053
Summary:

JH and son William arrived safely. H. C. Schumacher is out of town but JH will visit Altona anyway. Son William's reactions to travel. JH tried unsuccessfully to understand Immanuel Kant and J. G. Fichte during voyage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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