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DCP-LETT-425

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 and 8 Sept 1838
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell 1881 2: 43
Summary:

Would like to talk over Salisbury Craigs with CD.

CL’s father enthusiastic over Journal of researches.

Comments on Élie de Beaumont’s theory of mountain elevation.

Asks about parallel lines of upheaval and depression in the Pacific.

Glad CD likes Athenaeum Club.

Comments on methods of work.

Invites CD to visit Kinnordy.

Defends BAAS: "in this country no importance is attached to any body of men who do not make occasional demonstrations of their strength in public meetings".

With respect to Glen Roy, notes existence of deposits destitute of shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
7 Sept 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/8)
Summary:

Report on R. A. C. Austen’s paper on the origin of limestone in Devonshire [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1838): 669–70]. CD deems it not worthy of publication in Transactions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Sept [1838]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Gordon N. Ray Collection MA 13958)
Summary:

Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[14] Sept [1838]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11)
Summary:

Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.

Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.

Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.

On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-428A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Sept 1838
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the second number of the second part of the Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1107

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert John Kane
Date:
5 September 1838
Source of text:
TCD MS 7762-72 / 662, f.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1108

From:
Robert Were Fox
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 September 1838
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1109

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 September 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 326
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10382

From:
Thomas Emerson Headlam
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.262
Summary:

Sending results of the experiment on the lens of a large animal. Hopes he was not fatigued by the meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1094

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[16?] September 1838
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.8.13
Summary:

Forwards some material from William Lamb [Lord Melbourne]; JH wants to stop any rumors that he is available for the presidency of the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11179

From:
Karl Kreil
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1838-9]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.69
Summary:

Enquiring about some magnetical observations. Sends a memoir of his own work on magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11754

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.113
Summary:

Sends report on [N. L.] Lacaille's Observatory Stations. Tells of expeditions to Klipfontein. Lack of observing due to absence at Cape. Mural circle must be corrected or replaced. Needs an equatorial telescope. Agrees theodolite telescope would be useful.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12801

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Jones
Date:
[26 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0207; Reel 1054
Summary:

Invites RJ to join Andrew Smith and [Damein?] for dinner at JH's tonight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14133

From:
William Lamb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0354; Reel 1087
Summary:

Will meet with B.A.A.S. committee after WL returns to London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14766

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[3 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0969; Reel 1083
Summary:

Proposes JH for several positions in B.A.A.S. [Annotations by JH explain reasons for declining.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3762

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0583.6.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Copies the inscription on a vase awarded to JH to commemorate his work at Cape Town.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4386

From:
James Pulman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.193
Summary:

Sends designs of the coat of arms to be assigned to the Herschel family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5682

From:
Palm Heinrich Ludwig Boguslawski
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.170
Summary:

Has been looking for Encke's Comet. Compares his own and JH's readings concerning Halley's Comet. Law of comets in relation to Biela's comet. Will shortly be visiting Wilhelm Olbers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5710

From:
Nathaniel Bowditch [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.201
Summary:

Sending him an engraving, and the Rules of the Bowditch Library. Would like copies of JH's works for this library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6018

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[2 September 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.143 (C: RS:HS 25.8.12)
Summary:

Regarding the catalogue of N. L. Lacaille. Has sent the resolution regarding the Polar expedition to Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland). Must postpone introducing the business concerning the Cape Town Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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