From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[20? Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 14
Summary:
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
13 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.
Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
14 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 401
Summary:
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
14 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
19 Aug [1847]
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 Aug? 1847]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Aug 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/49)
Summary:
Asks WK to send the new measurements of the Eildon terraces. RC has found terraces in Fife.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
8 Aug 1847
Source of text:
HS 16.354, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Lord Auckland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 August 1847
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 235
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
12 August 1847
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
12 August 1847
Source of text:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MS Dickens DA 533 A8 1886a v.4, tipped in at p.208
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Beriah Drew
Date:
14 August 1847
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1847-8 [888] [895] XXXII, p.88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isaac Bancroft Cooke
Date:
21 August 1847
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
23 August 1847
Source of text:
Royal Astronomical Society MS HS J10/5, number 37
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Jane Davy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 August 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
William Alexander Baillie Hamilton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 August 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Alexander Baillie Hamilton
Date:
30 August 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project