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DCP-LETT-453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
6 Dec 1838
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

The Geological Society cannot recommend anyone to the Government of Newfoundland, but CD advises JBJ to get a recommendation from Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[6 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (BPL 885 / Darwin s.a)
Summary:

Sends proofs [of Birds, no. 2]. Asks GRG to check Latin accents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
20 Dec 1838
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.13)
Summary:

As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, formally expresses his thanks for initial numbers of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
21 [Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652 IB: 175
Summary:

CD informs AS of the position of the Council of the Geological Society on recommending J. B. Jukes for a geological survey of Newfoundland. Feels Jukes’s application would have best chance of success if Sedgwick, his Professor at Cambridge, wrote a letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
25 Dec [1838]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Advises JBJ on preparing himself for geological work in Newfoundland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 8
Summary:

The house at 12 Upper Gower Street is theirs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Dec 1838 –] 1 Jan 1839
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 9
Summary:

Has moved into the Gower Street house. Is pleased with it and its location.

Hopes to be able to finish his Glen Roy paper soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1, vol. VI., Misc. pp. 85–8)
Summary:

Sends suggestions for points that would interest geologists in a description of valleys in the Blue Mountains [New South Wales].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November] 1838
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.10
Summary:

Has promised Alexander Macleay that he would send details of the nets JH used to catch pelagic animals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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