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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
5 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
Jeremy and Helen Evans (private collection)
Summary:

Dicussion of some specimens from the Beagle voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3–17 Feb 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 5
Summary:

Thanks for information for Ehrenberg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wicksted
Date:
13 Feb [1844?]
Source of text:
George Clive (private collection)
Summary:

Inquires about the habits of a litter of foxhounds whose sire was particularly good at recovering the scent in paths or roads.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 6
Summary:

Has just completed Volcanic islands.

Sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general; also on relationship of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/34) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb – 6 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 10–11
Summary:

Island floras; relationships with mainland. Ranges of species in mundane genera.

Galapagos plants one-third done.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[15 Feb 1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/33)
Summary:

Has got in a controversy about tar burning with a man from Musselburgh.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/34)
Summary:

Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederic Daniell
Date:
2 February 1844
Source of text:
MM/3/9, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
3 February 1844
Source of text:
MM/9/52, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
David Brewster
To:
William Somerville
Date:
29 Feb 1844
Source of text:
MSB 11 / 357, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1844
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Date:
8 February 1844
Source of text:
BrUL MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Peter Boileau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 February 1844
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K04
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 355
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
20 February 1844
Source of text:
RI MS G F12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John George Children
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 February 1844
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H54
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
29 February 1844
Source of text:
RI MS G F13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Gardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.91
Summary:

Is hoping to establish a practical school of chemistry in London, and would like to add his name to the list of supporters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.107
Summary:

Encloses some specimens of photographs made by the use of chloride of gold and bichromate of potash. Comments on the process.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project