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DCP-LETT-729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 3
Summary:

Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP49

From:
Thomas Walker
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[before 11 Jan 1844?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/28)
Summary:

Longing for a letter from WK. Describes various excurions through Fife.

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Ruth Cramond
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KEMP50

From:
John Younger
To:
William Kemp
Date:
11 Jan 1844
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/30)
Summary:

Responds to WK’s article ‘The latest Geological changes in the south of Scotland’ (Kemp 1843).

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Ruth Cramond
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Faraday1546

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 January 1844
Source of text:
RGO 6/701, f.259
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5617

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.106
Summary:

Thanks for publishing his curves. Is proceeding with his reductions. G. B. Airy has forwarded the Greenwich observations. Would he obtain Howard Elphinstone's observations for him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6745

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.63
Summary:

Intends moving into the country after midsummer and would like JH's advice on a suitable spot for an observatory. Regrets that the atmosphere of London is not suitable for astronomical work now.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9837

From:
James A. Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.171
Summary:

Returned home full of health after his stay with JH. Visited the Pirie's at Maidstone. Someone suggested JH was the author of Vestiges. Mr. Pirie agrees with their project. Experiments by electricity for inducing plant growth. Mrs. Pirie has been giving him details of mesmerism at Maidstone.

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John Herschel Project
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