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DCP-LETT-1084

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 277
Summary:

[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 89
Summary:

Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.

Has acquired a new microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 91
Summary:

CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:

Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:

CD would like to call on JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
25 May [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5)
Summary:

Discusses accounts.

Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1090F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Allen
Date:
25 May 1847
Source of text:
The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07)
Summary:

Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 88
Summary:

Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 90
Summary:

Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.

Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:
5 May [1847]
Source of text:
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Summary:

Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP63

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 May 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/43)
Summary:

Thanks for WK’s letter of the 27th. RC has examined the country between Melrose and Kelso.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

RS-MM-000598

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Date:
18 May 1847
Source of text:
MM/11/46, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday1982

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 May 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/451, f.225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1983

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
3 May 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/451, f.226
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1984

From:
John Battishill Parker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 May 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1985

From:
Robert Walker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 May 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1986

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
6 May 1847
Source of text:
RGO 6/451, f.230
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1987

From:
John Wilson Croker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 May 1847
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I016
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1988

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Wilson Croker
Date:
8 May 1847
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1989

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Nasmyth
Date:
14 May 1847
Source of text:
Arno Müller
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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