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From:
Anselme Payen
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 August 1844
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I136
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 August 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Sir B. Brodie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 August 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 33
Summary:
Approves of the idea of a system of allotments for the agricultural population if they are near to their cottages. Reluctant to attend a meeting of Suffolk proprietors as his views differ greatly from most of them, particularly in relation to the Corn Laws.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 August 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 364
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1–29 Aug 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 15
Summary:
Encloses Ehrenberg letter, Galapagos seaweed, and specimens of Conferva.
H. Denny would like specimens of Antarctic Pediculi.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot)
Date:
9 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Declines to undertake to have AM’s journal published but recommends possible publishers in England.
Expresses scepticism about AM’s glacier theory. Emphasises role of floating ice instead. Mentions article by William Hopkins on movement of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
12 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Can hardly believe he made a mistake in specimens sent to HD. Recopies numbers in case he transposed them. [Has to do with lice taken from a specimen of aperea and put into spirits during Beagle voyage.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Aug 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 16
Summary:
Encloses pamphlet from Ehrenberg who asks about deep-sea soundings from JDH’s voyage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
29 Aug [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.38)
Summary:
Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].
Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].
Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Craven Hawtrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.172
Summary:
Enjoying the beautiful scenery, but the weather has not been good. Many thanks for the beautiful translation of Frederick Schiller. Has he added anything to his photographic discoveries? Saw some calographic pictures at Charles Wheatstone's, which improved on the Daguerreotype.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0520.9; Reel 1093
Summary:
Informed A. T. Kupffer that JH will preside at 1845 B.A.A.S. meeting and invited Kupffer to attend. Activities of [James] Renwick and A. D. Bache in trigonometrical survey of U.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 August 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0520.10; Reel 1093
Summary:
Let George Peacock take care of inviting foreign magnetic researchers to B.A.A.S meeting at Cambridge. ES could prepare report on results of British government observatories by next February.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.360
Summary:
Cannot explain why GA's letter did not reach JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.140 (C: RGO 6.675.360)
Summary:
Informing JH that he certainly wrote to him from Limerick.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.141 (C: RGO 6.193.118)
Summary:
Regarding F. W. Bessel's letter on the irregularity of proper motion in stars. Is it worth printing Nevil Maskelyne's observations on star places?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Giovanni Santini
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.348
Summary:
Sends medical writings of Philip Spongia. Sends observations of Mauvais's Comet from Berlin, Milan, and Padua. Plans to present personal observations to R.A.S. in the following year.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
4 August 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Edward Solly
Date:
30 August 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:639
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Iwanne Müller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 August 1844
Source of text:
RB MSS M106.7, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.58
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's offer of assistance and proposes to visit him next Wednesday. Congratulations on the addition to his family.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project