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From:
Archibald McLachlan
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15th Mar: 1844
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3830; MS JT/8/1/4a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Archibald McLachlan
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
31st March 1844
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3831-3832; MS JT/8/1/4a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Archibald McLachlan
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3826-3829; MS JT/8/1/4a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.193
Summary:
Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.194
Summary:
Is working on tables A and B. Further regarding Charles Ansell's life tables.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.195
Summary:
Sending more [life] tables. No age 65 in Charles Ansell's tables. Gives further advice on the running and financing of Friendly Societies.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.196
Summary:
Further regarding life tables and their workings. Francis Baily has a sheet of his grand catalogue on hand.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.197
Summary:
Just dispatched the letter when JH's arrived. Regarding benefit societies and their workings. Will write to J. W. Woolgar.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.198
Summary:
Has just received his letter. Further advice on Friendly Societies.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.199
Summary:
Has already sent him [William?] Tidd's tables as he requested. Regarding the printing by 5th April. Has sent tables to Farley.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.200
Summary:
Their Tidd Pratt tables crossed. Comments on Charles Ansell's and J. T. Pratt's tables.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.201
Summary:
Is sending all the tables to the printer tomorrow. Has given tables A and B a heading. J. T. Pratt's table is similar to his own though not accurate in decimals to the pound.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.202
Summary:
Printer unable to send proof to Richard Farley so JH will not be able to have proof by the 5th. Has requested printer to forward proof to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.268
Summary:
Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 March 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 356
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 March 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 357
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 7
Summary:
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 8
Summary:
Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.
Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
14 Mar 1844
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:
[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 9
Summary:
Asks JDH to forward publishing information to J. E. Gray.
Has received JDH’s infusorial specimens for Ehrenberg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
