From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.47
Summary:
Sending his theory of the orbits of comets. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.268
Summary:
Sending an equation for JH to solve. Thanks for sending details of the weight of the florin, and the song from Punch. If he wishes JH may borrow books from the College library.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.269
Summary:
Sending one of his equations for JH's comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
C. Bulstrode
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0083.1; Reel 1054
Summary:
Send inventory of [furnishings at] 32 Harley Street. New occupant is waiting to move in.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 November 1854
Source of text:
BPRE MS Regg E 224/24, doc. 3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
P. P. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 November 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 61
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Martins
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
9 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/10, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Cornelius Hessel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23ten Nov. 1845
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/121, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 152
Summary:
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
12 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:
Regrets he cannot come to hear DS’s paper ["On the structure of Mont Blanc", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 11 (1855): 11–27]. Has a lively interest in the subject.
Edward Forbes has misrepresented his view on foliation and cleavage [Athenæum 30 Sept 1854].
CD is convinced DS’s view will replace Huttonian and Lyellian view of metamorphic schists.
Recommends H. C. Sorby’s paper [probably "On the origin of slaty cleavage", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 156
Summary:
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:
Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.
Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
17 Nov 1854
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
David Brewster
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 November 1854
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 16/54
Source of text:
MS JT/3/45 (interleaved), RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/14; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1304, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
November 1854
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Archives, Miscellaneous loose letters, Fellows' files. Mueller, F von, Letter no 6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
19 November 1854
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 146.For extracts of this letter see B55.12.03, pp. 357- 60. W. Hooker's editorial changes have only been noted where they change the sense of the manuscript. Editorial additions follow the printed version. There are pencilled instructions to the printer throughout the letter; these have not been noted here. One of the folios of the letter may have been reversed in the guardbook. The sequence of the letter follows that of the published version
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 November 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.155-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project