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DCP-LETT-347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2)
Summary:

CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
18 June [1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3)
Summary:

Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.

Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:

Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Feb [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4)
Summary:

Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-504

From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 175
Summary:

Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Apr [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6)
Summary:

Thanks WW for wedding gift.

Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE634

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
2 Dec 1831
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 168, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE635

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 May 1832
Source of text:
Trinity College (Cambridge) Library, Whewell Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE636

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jun 1832
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 172, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE637

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
3 Apr 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 174, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE638

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
4 Jul 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 176, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE639

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 177, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE640

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
22 Nov 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 178, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE641

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
22 Nov 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 179, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE642

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1838
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 180, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE643

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
29 Aug 1839
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 182, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel4119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[28 January 1839]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton fMS Am 1301.1 (18)
Summary:

Invites WW to Slough before JH travels to Midhurst [to consider property for sale].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4611

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 December 1838]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton fMS Am 1301.1 (17)
Summary:

Despite respecting the distinguished company in the Geological Society, JH must refuse its presidency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8877

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[28 August 1839]
Source of text:
B.A.A.S. Report for 1839 (1840), pt. 2, 9-11 & Athenaeum, #621 (Sept. 21, 1839)
Summary:

Reports to the B.A.A.S. [through WW as section president] on experiments JH has conducted concerning the photochemical effects of the rays at the far red end of the spectrum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9075

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.181
Summary:

Sends JH a copy of Richard Jones's new book [Essay on the Distribution of Wealth]. Congratulates JH on the publication of his new book [Prelim. Discourse].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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