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From:
?
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
22 août 1831
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 393ter., Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Laurent-François Feuillet
Date:
20 août 1831
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
1 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 42)
Summary:
Will send his insects and two or three from Henslow.
The Canary scheme takes place next June.
Is grieved WDF thinks him capable of telling falsehoods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[6 or 13] Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97: B1–3
Summary:
GP has been asked to recommend a naturalist to sail with Capt. Robert FitzRoy to Tierra del Fuego and the South Sea Islands. If Leonard Jenyns is not available, whom would JSH recommend?
P.S. Urges JHS not to lose this opportunity to have collections made for "our museum".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2):4–5
Summary:
JSH has been asked by Peacock to recommend a naturalist as companion to Capt. FitzRoy on Beagle voyage. CD the best qualified person; not a finished naturalist but amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 26 Aug 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser.2): 11–13
Summary:
Details about FitzRoy and proposed voyage of Beagle. CD invited to go on the voyage as naturalist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
30 [Aug 1831]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 2 DAR/1/1/2)
Summary:
Feels he should decline Beagle voyage offer because of his father’s objections, which he lists. Would otherwise have taken all risks.
[Geological] trip with Adam Sedgwick a success.
Grieved at Marmaduke Ramsay’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
30–1 Aug 1831
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 96)
Summary:
CD has had an offer to go on a voyage of discovery for two years. RWD objects strongly, but will let CD make his case and if JW agrees with CD, RWD will change his position. In a postscript RWD adds, "Charles has quite given up … the voyage."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1831
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser.2): 6–8
Summary:
States his views on each of RWD’s objections to the Beagle venture. JW’s overall position is favourable to CD’s acceptance of the offer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Waring Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1831]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 1; DAR 97: B10
Summary:
CD asks his father to consider the offer of the Beagle voyage once more. He encloses his list of RWD’s objections and Josiah Wedgwood’s responses [see 109]. Asks his father to give him a decided answer: if "no" he will never again mention the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 Aug 1831
Source of text:
MSB1 / 234, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Tierney Clark
Date:
2 August 1831
Source of text:
GLRO Acc 2558 / WM / 1 / 8 / 1, p.180-1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Tierney Clark
Date:
3 August 1831
Source of text:
GLRO Acc 2558 / WM / 1 / 8 / 1, p.182-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
3 August 1831
Source of text:
private possession
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edwin Atherstone
Date:
8 August 1831
Source of text:
SoRO MS DD/SAS G/3016
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 August 1831
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I046
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Tierney Clark
Date:
18 August 1831
Source of text:
LMA Acc 2558/MW/C/15/62/2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John William Parker
Date:
19 August 1831
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buckland
Date:
20 August 1831
Source of text:
Markella Pervanas-Aktar
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Charles Bell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 August 1831
Source of text:
New York Academy of Medicine MS 435
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Author
- ?1
- Ampère, André-Marie1
- Babbage, Charles1
- Baily, Francis1
- Beaufort, Francis1
- Bell, Charles1
- Berzelius, Jöns Jacob1
- Calvert, Fred2
- Darwin, C. R.3
- Darwin, R. W.1
- Faraday, Michael7
- Grahame, James1
- Green, Charles1
- Henslow, J. S.2
- Herschel, John7
- McCullagh, James1
- Peacock, George3
- Ramsay, E. B.3
- Ramsay, Lauderdale1
- Thomson, George Selby1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, II1
- Whewell, William1
- Worsley, W.1
- FEWER