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Herschel4159

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1854?]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

'Delighted' to hear that JH is in 'such good spirits.' Has been giving regular class lectures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4744u

From:
Alexander William Williamson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
After 1853
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2772

From:
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 December 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9647

From:
Charles Fulbrook
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 December 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.386
Summary:

Believes that the moon has some influence on the amount of rainfall and sends some of his observations on this subject. Welcomes any comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2–3 Dec [1853]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66)
Summary:

Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1542

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

Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.

Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.

Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.

Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
24 Dec 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 129
Summary:

Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-381

From:
Richard Dawes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 December 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 107
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall0861

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 27. / 53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/26, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2771

From:
Ellis N. Field
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 December 1853
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/61
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13491

From:
G. B.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0724; Reel 1089
Summary:

Instead of index of all printed papers relating to Mint requested by JH, GB suggests set of indexes from 1800 to 1852 by Mr. Hausard. [Note from 'm' to JH on verso: 'Have you not the "railiamutard" Indexes already at the Mint?']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001602

From:
George A Halsted
To:
CB Weld, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
15 December 1853
Source of text:
MM/21/42, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel554

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.349.31
Summary:

Does not know of the details of French or American coinage, but Augustus de Morgan has undertaken to find someone to help JH with this problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2766

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 December 1853
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.153
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2767

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 December 1853
Source of text:
RGO 6/468, f.195
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1797

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0636.10 (C: RGO 6.341.50)
Summary:

Is waiting for JH's comments on the first draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1853-9-8].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0854

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Dec. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2407-2408, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall0852

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 10 Decemb | 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13485

From:
Henry Halford Jones and Robert Angus Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0719.1; Reel 1089
Summary:

[Form letter] Announces next meeting of Literary and Philosophical Society, with presentation by [Peter] Spence on atmospheric electricity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0844

From:
Henry Thomas de la Beche
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1st Dec. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13b/641, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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