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DCP-LETT-710

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT)
Summary:

Congratulates GRW on appointment to position at British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-710F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Nov [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/18) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

J. S. Henslow’s and C. C. Babington’s opinions on WK’s seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-711

From:
William Kemp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A16
Summary:

Thanks CD for kind letter concerning seeds. Believes soil in which they were planted was contaminated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-711F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[9 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/20) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

CD has been reflecting on John Lindley’s and C. C. Babington’s comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A13–14
Summary:

Babington has reared a facsimile [of W. Kemp’s Atriplex] by sowing seeds of A. angustifolia. CD has advised Kemp not to publish since anyone would say it was more probable that the seeds of his specimens were in the soil, than that the ones he found had retained vitality. CD regrets this, as he has no doubt of the antiquity of the seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-713

From:
William Kemp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A17
Summary:

Describes growth of plants raised from seeds he found in sand-pit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-714

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 or 20] Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 114: 1
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s safe return.

Henslow has sent CD’s S. American plants to JDH for examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[20 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 68)
Summary:

Family news and their quiet life at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-715F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Nov [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/21) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

CD is pleased with how good a case WK’s facts have made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-716

From:
William Kemp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A18
Summary:

Approves of the paper CD has drawn up concerning WK’s seed discovery.

Mentions article in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-717

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 100: 1–4
Summary:

Thanks for use of CD’s collection.

Comments and queries on the botany of the Southern Hemisphere.

Looks forward to seeing CD’s Galapagos plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001113

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Herschel
Date:
3 November 1843
Source of text:
MM/16/152, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE276

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
12 Nov 1843
Source of text:
HS 16.347, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10118

From:
Robert Grahame, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.10
Summary:

Does not have a complete list of his father's publications. Some he wished to suppress. Approves of JH's suggestion to send the manuscript of the history to Harvard. Is gratified by Dr. [Josiah?] Quincy's letter and also JH's impression of his father's character.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10752

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.104
Summary:

Has received from the P.M. proof of an article replying to the attack of [L. F.] Moser on RH, also details of a new instrument by J. W. Draper. Would like JH's opinion on the instrument. Has had some good results with the fluorates recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12195

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Morison
Date:
[24 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.53 & 22.171
Summary:

WM is not the first person to write to JH on the application of photography to astronomy. Comments on the question and gives some of his own views on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12576

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Phillips
Date:
[17 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.169
Summary:

Comments on the value of meteorological observations that TP proposes to undertake.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1754

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0629.7
Summary:

A notice of meeting of the Standards Committee, together with an indication of business to be conducted at that meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1869

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[2 November 1843]
Source of text:
WT 69293.1
Summary:

Requests publication of what will hopefully be JH's last letter on the Slough telescope [see JH's "[Reply to Dr. Robinson [on the Reflecting Telescopes of the Late Sir William Herschel]," Athenaeum, #836 (Nov. 4, 1843), 983-4.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2656

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.347
Summary:

Asks JH to tell her where to find his newly published works on the action of light on chemical substances. Rome is not intellectually stimulating. Describes summer in Venice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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