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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-994

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 79
Summary:

Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.

Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-995

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:

Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-996

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 64
Summary:

Has nearly finished South America.

Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.

Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.

CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.

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DCP-LETT-998

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 69–72
Summary:

Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.

Plant distribution and soil nature.

Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.

JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.

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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
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HENSLOW-1160

From:
Henry Coleman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 June 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add.8856/292
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1161

From:
Henry Coleman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add.8856/293
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-234

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
28 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-235

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
9 March 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-324

From:
Albert Way
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 349
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-325

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 August 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-326

From:
Charles Parker
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 December 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 244
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-613

From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 269
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-971

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. J. Hooker
Date:
20 November 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:641
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-983

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
3 December 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IE.153
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow 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].

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