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From:
Arthur Aikin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1849
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.48
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 April 1849
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published precis of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 109-10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
14 April 1849
Source of text:
MM/9/59, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.
CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.
CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Apr [1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73a)
Summary:
Continues to improve, but water-cure has produced "indolence and stagnation of mind".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 146
Summary:
On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.320
Summary:
Has just published a small work to remove popular superstitions. Presents a copy to JH as a mark of respect.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand Mertens
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 April 1849
Source of text:
RB MSS M99.6, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1849]
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:
Identifies the positive features of the aneroid barometer as in use by the Navy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.64
Summary:
Looks forward to the new edition of JH's Treatise Astr. Comments on the atmosphere and gases on the surface of the moon. What does JH think of these comments?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.395
Summary:
Glad to hear that Margaret Louisa [JH's daughter] is coming to visit GA's family; could JH send along the key to the R.A.S. strong box?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.371.106
Summary:
Some responses to the question of copyright and of revision of articles prepared for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1849]
Source of text:
RGO 6.231.178
Summary:
A note about forwarding papers related to the double star question [see JH's 1849-4-9].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.216 (C: RGO 6.231.180
Summary:
Returning papers of Yvon Villarceau and an abstract of them, together with comments on them.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1849]
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0025.1; Reel 14
Summary:
Describes HJ's formal petition against Stuart Watley's bill for reform of marriage laws.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3] April [1849
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0025.2; Reel 14
Summary:
Thanks for JH's corrections to HJ's formal petition [against marriage reform bill].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Ap. 16/49
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/22; MS JT/1/T/518, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 April 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur Watson
Date:
3 April 1849
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Barchard
Date:
3 April 1849
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project