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DCP-LETT-355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 [May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 35 DAR/1/1/35)
Summary:

Plans to apply to Government for assistance with publishing Zoology.

Robert Brown has taken an interest in the fossil woods.

CD is at work on his journal. Has not begun his geology yet. Has seen much of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[28 May 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 36 DAR/1/1/36)
Summary:

CD to read paper on formation of coral islands at Geological Society. Lyell seems prepared to give up [his view].

Publication of the Narrative is now definite. Feels he should have published journal after the geology and zoology of the voyage.

Robert Brown, as well as JSH, is interested in edible fungi from Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-356F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[after 31 May 1837]
Source of text:
Stokes 1846 , 1: 331
Summary:

Asks JLS: "Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?" [In reference to JLS’s proposed exploration of Australian coasts and rivers.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[19 May – 16 June 1837]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 52
Summary:

Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.

Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-383A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[May? 1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/169)
Summary:

Sends an abstract made by J. F. Royle of CD’s paper ["On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans"]. G. B. Greenough will have problems with the altered references in the coral island section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE33

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
13 May 1837
Source of text:
MSB1 / 257, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0991

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
2 May 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 316
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0992

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
3 May 1837
Source of text:
RS MS Lub F8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0993

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
4 May 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 317
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0994

From:
Faraday report
To:
Faraday report
Date:
5 May 1837
Source of text:
NLS MS 2207, f.184-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0995

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barrow
Date:
9 May 1837
Source of text:
PRO ADM1 / 4614, f.121
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0996

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
11 May 1837
Source of text:
RS MS Lub F9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0997

From:
Thomas Graham
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1837
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0998

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
16 May 1837
Source of text:
DP
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0999

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
David Mocatta
Date:
16 May 1837
Source of text:
K.W. Vincentz
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1000

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Leverton Donaldson
Date:
25 May 1837
Source of text:
RIBA MS LC/1/3/20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1001

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
25 May 1837
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.149
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1002

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Date:
25 May 1837
Source of text:
DM HS 781
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1003

From:
Richard Chambers
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 May 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H01
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1004

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Hollier
Date:
30 May 1837
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum MS Henderson Album, volume 1, f.22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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