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Herschel7022

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.267
Summary:

Has found a seventeenth-century mathematical manuscript amongst Francis Baily's papers with JH's handwriting on it; can he explain the mystery? There is also a letter from P. L. M. Maupertius to James Bradley, which he proposes sending to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-679

From:
F. J. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 October 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FVM-M53-10-01

From:
Charles La Trobe
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
1 October 1853
Source of text:
A249 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M53-10-27

From:
Charles La Trobe
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
27 October 1853
Source of text:
A249 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

RS-MM-001598

From:
Samuel Hunter Christie
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie, Royal Society
Date:
17 October 1853
Source of text:
MM/21/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Oct 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 149
Summary:

Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1534

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
10 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]

and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Oct 1853]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984)
Summary:

Returning JDH’s MS and books.

Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
11 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D19)
Summary:

Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 128
Summary:

Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.

Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
21 Oct 1853
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:

Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads every book about it that he can find. Sends news of former Beagle shipmates FitzRoy, Sulivan, Mellersh, and of Fuegia [Basket].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2739

From:
Emmanuel Arago et al.
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 October 1853
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-53-10-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Andrew Clarke
Date:
7 October 1853
Source of text:
Unit 1, 1853 bundle, VPRS 1258, inward unregistered correspondence to Surveyor General, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-53-10-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
18 October 1853
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 137
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-53-10-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Andrew Clarke
Date:
26 October 1853
Source of text:
Unit 1, 1853 bundle, VPRS 1258, inward unregistered correspondence to Surveyor General, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-53-10-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
28 October 1853
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, Australia letters 1851-8, vol. LXXIV, letter no. 136
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall0805

From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 October 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/102, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2748

From:
G.G. Wilson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 October 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001599

From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
George A Halsted
Date:
29 October 1853
Source of text:
MM/21/39, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2742

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 October 1853
Source of text:
RGO 6/468, f.179
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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