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DCP-LETT-937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reeve Brothers.
Date:
[Aug 1846]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[14 or 21] Aug 1846
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].

Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.

Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-989

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 49
Summary:

Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49)
Summary:

Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.

Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Mallet
Date:
26 Aug [1846]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure)
Summary:

Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1894

From:
Henry May
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 August 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1895

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 August 1846
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1896

From:
Margery Ann Reid and Faraday
To:
Caroline Deacon
Date:
9 August 1846
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1897

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 August 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1898

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
10 August 1846
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.48, f.30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1899

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1900

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1901

From:
Jane Jennings
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1902

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
13 August 1846
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 232
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1903

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Philip Burnard Ayres
Date:
15 August 1846
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1904

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 August 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 379
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1905

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
24 August 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 380
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1906

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 August 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 381
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1907

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
26 August 1846
Source of text:
J.M. and Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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