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RS-MM-001147

From:
Frederick William Beechey
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
19 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/17/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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HENSLOW-1148

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 February 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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WCP3793

From:
James Brooke
To:
Charles Thomas Constantine Grant
Date:
[18-19 Feb. 1855]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90
Summary:

James Brooke is expecting ARW to join a tour of western Sarawak which he is preparing (page 9) (he didn't). The rest of the letter relates to Grant (his family, past work and future plans as a government official) and Sarawak's political and domestic affairs.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel14704

From:
Caroline Emily Mary Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1855-2]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0792.1; Reel 1084
Summary:

Relates CH's and Arthur [Gordon?]'s conversation yesterday with Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon] on how to enable JH to resign without public 'mess.' Three weeks ago, Aberdeen would have accepted JH's resignation and appointed William Henry Barton as Master, but now Aberdeen's successor must decide.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14583

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0555.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Call on CT when convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2943

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 February 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 416
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1635

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376)
Summary:

Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.

Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1554F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:

Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.

Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
28 Feb 1855
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, pp. 254–5
Summary:

Pleased to hear that SC is prospering.

News of FitzRoy, Sulivan and J. L. Stokes.

The Crimean War is badly mismanaged, but Englishmen are behaving nobly.

Wishes he knew what to do with his boys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1046

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 19/55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/42, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1038

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 5th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/30, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14721

From:
Frederick Robert Brande and Henry Finch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0920; Reel 1083
Summary:

[Copy in JH's hand of memorial to Treasury from F. R. Brande and Henry Finch. JH marked this copy 'Strictly private....'] Recount improvements that FB and HF have made in Mint operations, but complain that they do not receive the consideration, encouragement, or salary that is due them. [After reading this memorial, JH opened his finished letter (also 21 Feb 1855) to Brande and added a P.S. that led Brande and Finch to withdraw this memorial.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1554G

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:

Sends on CD’s list of enquiries about native breeds of animals in South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel516

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.75
Summary:

The requests should be made to the Exchequer office [see JH's 1855-2-2]; complains about the incompetence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2937

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 February 1855
Source of text:
RGO 6/470, f.57-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1093

From:
George Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0002; Reel 1062
Summary:

Received JH's letter of resignation during ministerial crisis but elected not to present it to Queen Victoria. Send it to GG's successor [H. J. Temple], together with testimony to merits of W. H. Barton as JH's successor. [JH's daughter] Caroline continues well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday2941

From:
George Wilson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1048

From:
George Wynne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27 Feb. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1853, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001509

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
6 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/19/113, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-13870

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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