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DCP-LETT-1000

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56)
Summary:

Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1035

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 76
Summary:

Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.

Thanks for the corallines.

Mention of JDH’s capital speech.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 77
Summary:

Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1037

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
12 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2)
Summary:

Thanks JH for draft. Glad to hear account of farmhouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1038

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52)
Summary:

Discusses the geological origin of terraces.

Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].

Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1039

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 Dec [1846]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.10–11)
Summary:

Asks JM for information on sales of his Journal of researches and to procure for him a copy of the American edition. He is curious to see if the part on slavery has been altered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[23 Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 138
Summary:

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.

Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.

Lists sections of South America of special interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP61

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/41)
Summary:

Asks for assistance investigating raised beaches on the river Tweed around Galashiels.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP62

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
19 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/42)
Summary:

Thanks for the observations WK has sent.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

SOMERVILLE205

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
? Dec 1846
Source of text:
MSF 2, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday1934

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1 December 1846
Source of text:
RGO 6/227, f.476
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1935

From:
James South
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 December 1846
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1936

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 December 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1937

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
18 December 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 382
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1938

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
22 December 1846
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1939

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Patrick Muirhead
Date:
23 December 1846
Source of text:
Glasgow University Library MS Gen 1354 / 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1939a

From:
Franklin Coxworthy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 December 1846
Source of text:
Coxworthy (1847), 202-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1939b

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Franklin Coxworthy
Date:
24 December 1846
Source of text:
Coxworthy (1847), 203
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1939c

From:
Franklin Coxworthy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 December 1846
Source of text:
Coxworthy (1847), 203
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1940

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 December 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 383
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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