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DCP-LETT-1626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.110)
Summary:

Discusses views of Daniel Sharpe on foliation and cleavage. Recalls his own previous discussion [in South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1627

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
1 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/3)
Summary:

Thanks FG for book [The art of travel (1855)].

Is looking for a house in London for a month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D21)
Summary:

Reports that his intercession with Folliott Baugh [Rector of Chelsfield, Kent] has had no effect. Baugh still believes Farnborough’s rights have not been attended to if entire fund is applied to the school at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.111)
Summary:

Has found a house on Baker Street to take for a month.

Mentions Daniel Sharpe’s study of the Grampians.

Association of various metamorphic rocks and relationship of their foliation to their dip and strike. Discusses foliation of schists and its origin. Comments on fluidity of gneiss and schists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1631

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
15 [Jan 1855]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D22)
Summary:

CD called on Baugh but found him adamant; he has already laid the case before the [Charity] Commissioners and if necessary will take it to a Court of Equity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[21 Jan – 11 Feb 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.112)
Summary:

Relationship of schists to alternating beds of slate in western Tierra del Fuego and the Chonos Islands.

Comments on Sharpe’s theory of curved cleavage planes.

Example of metamorphosis in a "clay-slate porphyry region". Importance of previous lines of cleavage and stratification in foliation of metamorphosed rock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1634

From:
John Davy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 227
Summary:

Responds to CD’s letter. The ova of Salmonidae exposed to air, if kept moist, will stay alive up to 72 hours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE87

From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
19 ? 1855
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 409, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE88

From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 ? 1855
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 411, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday2930

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur Young
Date:
3 January 1855
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2931

From:
Thomas Boosey et al.
To:
Edinburgh Glasite Church
Date:
3, 4, 8 and 9 January 1855
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2932

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall, Edward Frankland, John Barlow and Henry Bence Jones
Date:
16 January 1855
Source of text:
Newcastle University Library MS Album 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2933

From:
August Wilhelm Hofmann
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 January 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2933a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ellen Giles
Date:
19 January 1855
Source of text:
Timothy Giles
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2934

From:
Charles Fox
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 January 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2935

From:
Thomas Boosey et al.
To:
Edinburgh Glasite Church
Date:
31 January and 4 February 1855
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4648u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Andrew Crosse
Date:
Before 1855
Source of text:
HL HU f MS Am 1301 (114)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4653u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Thomas De La Beche
Date:
Before 1855
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/95
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4696u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
Before 1855
Source of text:
YUL Eng. Misc. MSS 753, Box 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4727u

From:
James Emerson Tennent
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Between 1855 and 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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