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DCP-LETT-421

From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 293
Summary:

Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-421A

From:
Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/5)
Summary:

Sends to CD, as Secretary of the Geological Society, his work on fossil shells ["Mémoire sur les coquilles fossiles", Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 10 (1838): 92–152].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000466

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
1 July 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1098

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
2 July 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.487
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1099

From:
Samuel March Phillipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1100

From:
Charles Mayne Young
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1101

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel March Phillipps
Date:
19 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1102

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1103

From:
Samuel March Phillipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 July 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1104

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
30 July 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 324
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10708

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[31 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.65 & 21.255
Summary:

Regrets he was unable to meet him when in Hanover. Took no part in Guillaume Weber's operations at the Cape, but has become acquainted with them through Weber's volumes. Has pressed the Admiralty on the necessity of Magnetic Observatories at various places. Regarding AH's observations on the barometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10877

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.226
Summary:

Sends congratulations on his safe return and also on the award of his baronetcy. Would like to submit JH's name as a candidate for the Literary Society; gives names of those already members.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12005

From:
Teodoro Monticelli
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.367
Summary:

Congratulates JH on return to England, his success at the Cape, and his ascension to the baronetcy. Praises JH for his contributions to many areas of science: 'The name of Herschel is ... the most spoken in this century.' Describes eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 1834 and his studies of the event. Makes general comments on the progress of science in Italy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12323

From:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.180
Summary:

Is making arrangements for JH's visit to WO, during a continental tour by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1325

From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 July 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.276
Summary:

Thanks for more Cape bulbs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13298

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[9] July 1838
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.1; Reel 1053
Summary:

JH and son William arrived safely. H. C. Schumacher is out of town but JH will visit Altona anyway. Son William's reactions to travel. JH tried unsuccessfully to understand Immanuel Kant and J. G. Fichte during voyage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13299

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.2; Reel 1053
Summary:

Fatiguing trip from Hamburg. Mr. Groskopff is 'preparing' aunt Caroline for arrival of JH and son William. Comments on German philosophers whom JH is reading on trip. Visit with Caroline Herschel. Miss Beckedorff is out of town. Architecture and language of Hanover. Groskopffs named their country home 'Slough' near Hameln.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13300

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.3; Reel 1053
Summary:

JH and son William made surprise visit to aunt Caroline Herschel. Mrs. Beckedorff is recovering from long illness. All Detmering family, who resided at Cumberland Lodge, are dead except Mrs. Detmering. Dr. Groskopff reports that Caroline, age 89, can still 'put her foot behind her back and scratch her ear in imitation of a dog.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13301

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0538.4; Reel 1053
Summary:

Hot temperatures killed all fish in rivers and moats of Hanover. JH's and son William's journey from Hanover through Ammensen to Göttingen. Describes outdated architecture, poor agricultural practices, and sad plight of peasant women. Attended church in Göttingen then visited C. F. Gauss at observatory. J. F. Blumenbach was too ill to receive JH and Gauss.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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