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DCP-LETT-358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[June – Sept 1837]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322)
Summary:

At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[15 June 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Describes the two species of lizard [Amblyrhynchus] found in the Galapagos Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-360A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
16 June 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

CD wants to request the assistance of Government to support the expense of the numerous engravings necessary for the publication of the results of the extensive collections in various departments of Natural History during the Beagle voyage. To what quarter should he apply?

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-361A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[20 June 1837]
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Upon the advice of Captain Beaufort and with embarrassment to himself CD asks JSH whether he would be perfectly willing personally to take the letter requesting government assistance directly to Thomas Spring Rice [Chancellor of the Exchequer].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361B

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
21 June 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Encloses CD’s letter and documents [see 360a and 361a] with request that they be reviewed by the Chancellor personally.

He would also like to discuss Cambridge politics if an interview can be arranged.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick William Hope
Date:
[21 June 1837]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Discusses insect specimens he left with FWH. Asks if he may state on FWH’s authority that a third or a half of the specimens from Sydney and Hobart Town are undescribed – a striking fact, showing imperfect knowledge of the insects in the close neighbourhood of the two Australian capitals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE136

From:
Ada Byron (King)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
22 Jun 1837
Source of text:
MSBY 3 / 76, Dep. c. 367, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE387

From:
Adelaide Kemble
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Jun 1837
Source of text:
MSK 2 / 44, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday1006

From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c June 1837
Source of text:
HSP FDC 1, p.61
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1007

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
3 June 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1008

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barrow
Date:
5 June 1837
Source of text:
PRO ADM1 / 4614, f.142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1009

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Richard Hamilton
Date:
8 June 1837
Source of text:
RIBA MS Elgin Marbles Committee Minutes, f.14-15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1010

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 June 1837
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1011

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 June 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1012

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
14 June 1837
Source of text:
Mr and Mrs Aida
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1013

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
23 June 1837
Source of text:
Norwich Castle Museum Woodward MS, volume 11, f.66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1014

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barrow
Date:
26 June 1837
Source of text:
PRO ADM1 / 4614, f.169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-206

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Baxter
Date:
6 June 1837
Source of text:
Oxford University Herbarium
Summary:

Discusses dedication for Baxter’s British Phaenogamous Botany to JSH.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-961

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 July 1837
Source of text:
Science Museum MS 1406
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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