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Herschel8397

From:
Augusta Ada King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.282
Summary:

Thanks for answers about moon and proof of JH's next book. Seeks evidence to support claim that clouds disappear when moon is full. Enquires about lunar formulas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8398

From:
Augusta Ada King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.283
Summary:

Asks JH to review Lord Lovelace's [William King's] paper on moon's influence on weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8399

From:
Augusta Ada King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 October [1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.284
Summary:

Quotes passage from A. E. P. Gasparin comparing JH's actinometer to other such instruments. Seeks JH's opinion of Adolphe Quetelet's hypothesis of heat. Question on photographic chemicals and 'calorific rays.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2112

From:
Brough George Maltby
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 October 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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KEMP89

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/69a)
Summary:

A second attempt by RC to defend his conduct.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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Tyndall0362

From:
Charles Mackay
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
October 14th, 1848
Source of text:
MS JT/5/15c, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7599

From:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1848]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.116; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a copy of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2109

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c. October 1848
Source of text:
UB MS NS 387
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
5 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
Summary:

Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:

CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.

CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[15 or 22] Oct 1848
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.

Very unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
22 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274)
Summary:

Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2110a

From:
Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 October 1848
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday2111

From:
Frederick Madan
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 October 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4817

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.207 (C: RGO 6.370.41)
Summary:

Encloses perturbation sheets for checking.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4818

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.208a (C: RGO 6.370.44)
Summary:

Has received further proof sheets of the perturbations from the printer. Regarding Isaac Newton's theory of the motion of the moon's apse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel400

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.230.460
Summary:

A note accompanying the return of a paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4820

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.209 (C: RGO 6.370.69)
Summary:

Further regarding GA's defense of Isaac Newton's theory on the moon. J. H. Seyfforth's theories seem plausible. Ipswich Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4822

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.211 (C: RGO 6.370.73)
Summary:

Regarding the annual equation of the moon's motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel127

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1848]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.583
Summary:

Sends GA's correspondence on the subject of the Admiralty grant, with further explanatory comments [see JH's 1848-10-28].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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