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DCP-LETT-1144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Jan–June 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6)
Summary:

Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.

Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Jan – 23 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD regrets the trouble RO has had about C. G. Ehrenberg’s parcel.

He is reading On the nature of limbs [1849] with uncommon interest and admires the way Owen worked out the toes.

Also has read On parthenogenesis [1849] with great interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1285

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
[Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 201)
Summary:

Thanks WJH for information about J. D. Hooker; CD was very anxious to hear something about his safety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1286

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam White
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1850]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Requests AW to ask Arthur Adams, who is going on a polar expedition to Lancaster Sound, to collect cirripedes.

Asks location of "Cape Rivers".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13799F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1850–4?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (17 November 1995)
Summary:

Two letters have arrived for WED.

Joseph has had two teeth out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2248

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Jane Moore
Date:
1850
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 256-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4638u

From:
Mary Buckland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Early 1850s
Source of text:
Gordon (1894), 268
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4685u

From:
Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier
To:
Faraday
Date:
1850 to 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4718u

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Between 1850 and 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4738u

From:
Lewis Vulliamy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1850s
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-579

From:
P. P. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 62
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-582

From:
Richard Dawes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 111
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-584

From:
Lord Ducie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-611

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 211
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-614

From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 270
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-622

From:
William Selwyn
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 295
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-626

From:
T. V. Wollaston
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 367
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel12905

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Pritchard
Date:
[1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0318; Reel 1054
Summary:

Inability of JH's son [William] to pass Greek. Concerned that this may delay [William's] entry into Haileybury College. Notes similar inability with languages in JH's other two sons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14715

From:
John Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1850 to 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0915; Reel 1083
Summary:

Suggests changes in statutes governing colleges.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1620

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
1850
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.105 (C: RS:HS 25.9.69)
Summary:

Has received interesting observations of double stars from Thomas Maclear at the Cape observatory. The new equatorial lens sent to the Cape arrived safely, in spite of sloppiness by the English custom-house.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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