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DCP-LETT-1150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[4 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has been invited to contribute geological instructions [to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849); Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Asks RO whether remarks on coral reefs appertain to geology rather than zoology.

Looks forward to visit by Owens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1848
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 11)
Summary:

Undertakes to write geological part of Admiralty Instructions [A manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Has doubts as to his success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
4 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Invites him to dinner on Saturday the 12th. Charles and Mrs Lyell, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and Thomas Bell coming also.

"Will you bring your map of S. America … and we will have a talk over it."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.11
Summary:

As JH has accepted the superintendency of the Admiralty Manual he will try to undertake the geological part, but it will take time as he is busy on another project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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