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Tyndall0487

From:
Alexander Humboldt
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/6/59, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2421

From:
Alfred Swaine Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 May 1851
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9695

From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.44
Summary:

Announcing his discovery of another new planet. Gives readings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2428

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 May 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14473

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0551.10; Reel 1093
Summary:

Tenders [for bids] should be let soon. Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] will see JH and H. D. Harness this afternoon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
[1 May – 5 June 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 131
Summary:

Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1425F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, 12th duke of Somerset
Date:
May 1851
Source of text:
Julian Browning (dealer) (Catalogue 10, ‘Historical Manuscripts and Documents’)
Summary:

Testimonial on behalf of J. D. Hooker, addressed to Lord Seymour as Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Woods and Forests, signed by CD and many other scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:

Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
6 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 385
Summary:

Congratulates JD on discovery of fossil footsteps near Port Philip, Australia. Richard Owen would be glad to examine them. J. B. Jukes most likely to know geology of Port Philip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
15 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 386
Summary:

Comments on concretionary bodies found by JD. Encourages him to continue geological study.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1428F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
25 May [1851]
Source of text:
Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209)
Summary:

Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Ball
Date:
26 May [1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows’ Papers 54.ii)
Summary:

Obliged for letter about cirripedes attached to turtles’ backs. Genus is Chelonobia, Leach. Cirripedes do not penetrate skin, but surrounding tissue grows up around them.

Asks RB to send S. American Balanus. Already has specimens from Irish coast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0353

From:
Darwin, Catherine
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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HENSLOW-1186

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 May 1851
Source of text:
John Innes Centre, Library and Archives W. H. Flower Collection 11/1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel9349

From:
Georg Adolph Erman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.103
Summary:

Sends a paper. Comments on temperature at low altitudes and listing papers known on this subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel272

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.119.208
Summary:

A note to accompany the forwarding of a packet of 'Eclipse Observation Suggestions' [see JH's 1851-4-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel50

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.373.167
Summary:

Describes GA's journey to Gothenburg (Sweden), the purpose of which was to observe a solar eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5662

From:
George Bishop
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 May 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.151
Summary:

Thanks for the name for the new planet [Irene]. J. R. Hind has written to the Times concerning it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13592

From:
George Cornewall Lewis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1851]
Source of text:
Return, 50
Summary:

Treasury commissioners appoint Henry Rich to assist JH in investigating claim for compensation by Henry Bingley, due to abolition of office of Queen's assay master.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14127

From:
George Maule
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0349; Reel 1087
Summary:

Returns copy of JH's letter to Queen, with suggested alterations. Sign and return this, so GM can officially present matter to Privy Council tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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