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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 109
Summary:

Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.

Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 110
Summary:

CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grey
Date:
13 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2))
Summary:

Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
18 Nov [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66)
Summary:

Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.

Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:

"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …

What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
5 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/53)
Summary:

Has found a fine terrace at Middleton Moor.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
11 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/54)
Summary:

The measurements differ to a startling degree. Asks WK to engage the professional surveyor at Melrose to survey the heights again.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/55)
Summary:

The surveyor’s report has left RC even more puzzled and he may have to give up the Eildons altogether.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
30 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/56)
Summary:

Has discovered Mr Mitchell’s assistant added in 28′ erroneously, but that still leaves anomalies.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
29 November 1847
Source of text:
MM/9/56, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Hugh Welch Diamond
Date:
November 1847
Source of text:
Diamond (1847), 452
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Leslie
Date:
2 November 1847
Source of text:
RI MS F1 A19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 November 1847
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Julius Plücker
Date:
11 November 1847
Source of text:
NRCC ISTI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
12 November 1847
Source of text:
TCC MS O.14.43, f.209
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 November 1847
Source of text:
UB MS NS 385
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 November 1847
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Edward and James Brown
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 November 1847
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 November 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177:318
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Buckland
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 November 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project