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DCP-LETT-1146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[18 Dec 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13775

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter
Date:
2 Oct [1847?]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Summary:

Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13825F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:

Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:

"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …

What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13834

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
23 Dec [1847-54]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:
5 May [1847]
Source of text:
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Summary:

Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-938

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Summary:

A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.

Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.

Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP63

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 May 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/43)
Summary:

Thanks for WK’s letter of the 27th. RC has examined the country between Melrose and Kelso.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP64

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
12 June 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/44)
Summary:

Thanks for information about Yarrow terraces. Does not think WK’s objections to the lake theory of Upper Tweeddale insurmountable.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP65

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[21 June] 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/45)
Summary:

Requests the measurements of WK’s Eildon Terraces be sent to RC at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP66

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
24 June 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/46)
Summary:

Thanks for the measurements of WK’s Eildon Terraces, but would like the measurements of the beaches below No 9 more precisely.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP67

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 July 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/47)
Summary:

Thanks for the measurements of the intermediate Eildon terraces.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP68

From:
James Tod
To:
William Kemp
Date:
30 Jul 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/48)
Summary:

Will lay WK’s paper on the economising of fuel in gas works before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts when it meets the following winter.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP69

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Aug 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/49)
Summary:

Asks WK to send the new measurements of the Eildon terraces. RC has found terraces in Fife.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP70

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
28 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/50)
Summary:

The Glenroy terraces match WK’s measurements of the terraces on the Tweed.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP71

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
16 Oct 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/51)
Summary:

Would like to spend the following Tuesday reviewing the Eildon terraces with WK.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP72

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
24 Oct 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/52)
Summary:

Wants WK to undertake a new survey of the hill.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP73

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
5 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/53)
Summary:

Has found a fine terrace at Middleton Moor.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP74

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
11 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/54)
Summary:

The measurements differ to a startling degree. Asks WK to engage the professional surveyor at Melrose to survey the heights again.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP75

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/55)
Summary:

The surveyor’s report has left RC even more puzzled and he may have to give up the Eildons altogether.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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