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DCP-LETT-13852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Invites GRW and his family to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:

Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.

CD has been "wonderfully strong".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-754

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

Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.

Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-754F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:

Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
3 June [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35)
Summary:

Discusses intestinal worms among humans.

Comments on origin of human races.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-756

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 June 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380
Summary:

Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
11 June [1844]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-758

From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1844
Source of text:
DAR 163: 10
Summary:

Thanks for earth samples. Discusses Infusoria in samples from Galapagos and Cape Verde Islands. Would like samples from other sites. Will send further results of investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-759

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 12
Summary:

Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [758] about Infusoria.

Intends to visit Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000529

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1/13 June 1844
Source of text:
MM/10/53, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1591

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Byam Martin
Date:
12 June 1844
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1845, [611] 16, p.198
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1592

From:
Joseph Antione Ferdinand Plateau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 June 1844
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1593

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 June 1844
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1594

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
15 June 1844
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1595

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
19 June 1844
Source of text:
UB MS NS 363
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Grahame, Jr.
Date:
[18 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.10bis
Summary:

If he will send him what notes he has on his father he will forward them to [Josiah?] Quincy. Can he let him have definite news as to the disposal of the History?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10120

From:
Robert Grahame, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.11
Summary:

Has been occupied in London with Railway business and so has been unable to make a copy of his father's History. Will obtain the services of an amanuensis to speed things up.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10324

From:
William A. Baillie- Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.206
Summary:

Details regarding the Admiralty Manual of Instruction. Number of copies and compensation for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10383

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Emerson Headlam
Date:
[13 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.263 & 22.198
Summary:

When he was staying with Headlam he arranged to show him round a chemical works. Wonders if the sketch JH made at the time of a method for reducing chemical fumes is still extant. Would be glad to receive a copy of it, and the name of the works.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10711

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
1844-6-10 or [1844-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.197
Summary:

Extensive letter answering the many queries about nebulae raised by AH in his 1844-4-18 [letter contains notes made by AH].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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