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DCP-LETT-1040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hutton
Date:
[1847 – 12 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.67)
Summary:

Tells RH that he has secured an introduction to Lady Elizabeth Finch through a friend of his father’s. Thanks RH for his efforts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1847?]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS)
Summary:

Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 139
Summary:

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Discusses inclination of lava stream.

Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[Jan? 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.55)
Summary:

Arranges to meet with WBC to get his advice about buying a microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1050A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
2 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859))
Summary:

Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65)
Summary:

Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.

Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].

Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[19 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2)
Summary:

Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1053

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[on or before 20 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.57)
Summary:

Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
20 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Much interested in BS’s letter on gneiss ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 186–7].

Sends copy of South America.

Has shown that lamination of metamorphic schists closely allied with cleavage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
21 [Jan 1847]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[24 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58)
Summary:

Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.

Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (PEARSON/10/1)
Summary:

Comments on manuscript [? "On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1849): 111–29]. Discusses phenomenon of cleavage. Will write to J. D. Forbes about DS’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13825F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:

Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001783

From:
James Clark Ross
To:
John Richardson
Date:
c.1847
Source of text:
MM/25/2, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE204

From:
William Somerville
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
before 1847
Source of text:
private posession
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10389

From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.269
Summary:

Has been investigating the Cavendish experiments recently repeated by Francis Baily. Thinks G. B. Airy has neglected the resistance of the air in his mathematical theory. Would like to send an abstract of his investigations so that JH can judge their merits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10390

From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.270
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter on the Cavendish experiment. Gives outline of his own theories regarding certain aspects of the Cavendish experiments, and would like his opinion on these before they are incorporated into a paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10391

From:
George W. Hearn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.271
Summary:

Sends his manuscripts. Discusses some of Michael Faraday's experiments, in particular his theory on the non-magnetism of blood. Has sent Faraday a paper on the action of voltaic currents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14082

From:
Charles Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0301; Reel 1087
Summary:

Explains combined British and foreign postage rate applied to JH's letter, which has been forwarded to France. [JH annotation on verso about actinometer.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14442

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0529.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

Reports organization of N. L. Lacaille's star catalog. Suggests method by which to compare this with Thomas Henderson's figures to determine Henderson's method of computation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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