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Herschel9812

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.147
Summary:

Soldiers are suffering in this unhealthy country for want of occupation. Hopes he has been able to lighten his duties at the Mint. Administration seems inefficient in the supply to the troops.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14580

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0554.10; Reel 1093
Summary:

Inspect enclosed Treasury minutes regarding Robert Mushet, and inform CT if JH has objections. Encloses several papers on Turkish currency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-383

From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 August 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 105
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Lucy T. Eisenberg (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks JAHdeB for his present of two volumes [Description des Entomostracés fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France et de la Belgique (1852) and "Les Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. CD was interested in the remarks on geographical distribution of the Entomostraca.

CD’s second volume for the Ray Society [Living Cirripedia] is finished but not yet published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1578A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:

Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
18 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hannah Louisa Bernard; Hannah Louisa Stutchbury
Date:
22 Aug 1854
Source of text:
Matthews 1982, p. 262
Summary:

Arranges to return a collection of cirripedes which belongs to her husband [Samuel Stutchbury].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
24 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?

C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.

Discusses returning specimens to AH.

Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 272
Summary:

Discusses specimen of Balanus crenatus.

Sorry JP’s children are ill.

Will come to Liverpool if well [for meeting of BAAS].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
29 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Summary:

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2874

From:
Fabian Carl Ottokar von Feilitzsch
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 August 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2878

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
15 August 1854
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/64.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-54-08-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Foster
Date:
1 August 1854
Source of text:
H54/8358, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-54-08-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
3 August 1854
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-54-08-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Foster
Date:
31 August 1854
Source of text:
G54/9551, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday2876

From:
Friedrich Wöhler
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1854
Source of text:
RS MS MC 5.176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel262

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.63
Summary:

Seeks current information about the selection process for the Melbourne University professorships [see GA's 1854-7-15].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel264

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.66
Summary:

Agrees to meeting date [see JH's 1854-8-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel267

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.335.69
Summary:

Agrees that JH should write to the Melbourne University authorities and point out some concerns [see JH's 1854-8-16].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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