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From:
August Wilhelm Hofmann
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
After 1846
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
August Wilhelm Hofmann
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
After 1846
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.232
Summary:
Is beginning to work on the Annual Report. Has he any information about F. W. Bessel or J. J. L. Lalande's catalogue?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/41)
Summary:
Asks for assistance investigating raised beaches on the river Tweed around Galashiels.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
19 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/42)
Summary:
Thanks for the observations WK has sent.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 December 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 383
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56)
Summary:
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 76
Summary:
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 77
Summary:
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
12 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2)
Summary:
Thanks JH for draft. Glad to hear account of farmhouse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52)
Summary:
Discusses the geological origin of terraces.
Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].
Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[23 Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 138
Summary:
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.
Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.
Lists sections of South America of special interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.10–11)
Summary:
Asks JM for information on sales of his Journal of researches and to procure for him a copy of the American edition. He is curious to see if the part on slavery has been altered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dr. Groskopf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.146
Summary:
Appears to be providing JH with the most recent news about JH's aunt Caroline.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
? Dec 1846
Source of text:
MSF 2, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.201
Summary:
Discusses possible meteorological and magnetic research possibilities in the colonies, particularly at Bermuda.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francesco Zantedeschi
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1846]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Discusses issues raised in JH's 'On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver....'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Franklin Coxworthy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 December 1846
Source of text:
Coxworthy (1847), 202-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Franklin Coxworthy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 December 1846
Source of text:
Coxworthy (1847), 203
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1846]
Source of text:
RGO 6.56.173
Summary:
Sends some books in response to JH's request for information about F. W. Bessel [see JH's 1846-12-20]; GA's daughter Hilda is very ill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project