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Faraday1071

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1838
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14766

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[3 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0969; Reel 1083
Summary:

Proposes JH for several positions in B.A.A.S. [Annotations by JH explain reasons for declining.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE439

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1838
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 144, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday1095

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday 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

Herschel2084

From:
Charles Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.333
Summary:

Working on a new English dictionary. Writing about sound. Asks permission to use JH's work on sound.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2085

From:
Charles Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.334
Summary:

Grateful for permission to use JH's work on sound for the dictionary [see RS:HS 14.333]. Suggests JH write a synopsis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2086

From:
Charles Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.335
Summary:

Long discussion of the sounds and etymologies of various words. [Probably in reference to the dictionary CR was preparing; see RS:HS 14.333].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November] 1838
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.10
Summary:

Has promised Alexander Macleay that he would send details of the nets JH used to catch pelagic animals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1126

From:
Charles Turner
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 December 1838
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-402B

From:
John George Children
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1838
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/1/74)
Summary:

In view of the charges directed by Edward Blyth against George R. Gray for gross incivility and discourtesy in discharging his duties as assistant in the zoological department at the British Museum, CD is asked by the Trustees to comment upon his own experience with Gray and to offer his judgment of these charges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1093

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 June 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 323
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1105

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 325
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1109

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 September 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 326
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1113

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 October 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 327
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-000720

From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
1 December 1838
Source of text:
MM/12/37, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000721

From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
6 December 1838
Source of text:
MM/12/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000464

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
6 January 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/44, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000465

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
7 June 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/45, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

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
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