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DCP-LETT-1045

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[Jan–Aug 1848]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1141

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[1848?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Suggests various remedies for toothache.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1143

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
[1848]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 189
Summary:

Seeks excuse from jury duty on grounds of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1145

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 96
Summary:

[Valediction only.] CD note on verso: Athenaeum/48/p. 839 "E. Forbes on genera being continuous in time––good––fact".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Smith of Jordanhill
Date:
28 Jan [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD asks if he may have the use of the cirripedes JS collected in Portugal. He will need to break up or make a section of at least one of each species.

Expresses admiration for JS’s paper on Malta ["On recent depressions in the land", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 234–40], with its striking demonstration of the change of level between land and water there discovered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
31 Jan [1848]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (Mr Sorimachi, bookseller, Tokyo) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for his article ["Microscopical objects found in mud of Levant", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848):1–128]. Comments on it; offers to send Ascension Island specimens. Urges WCW to re-examine coal-beds for Infusoria to determine whether intervening beds were deposited by sea-, brackish, or fresh water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13869

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Date:
[1848–51]
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (George P. Merrill collection, box 4, file H)
Summary:

Testimonial recommending B. Waterhouse Hawkins [for a teaching post].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP82

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1848?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/62)
Summary:

Memorandum: Remarks on Mr Kemp’s table.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

RS-MM-000591

From:
Robert Barnes
To:
unknown
Date:
24 January 1848
Source of text:
MM/10/187, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE292

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1848?
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 312, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE293

From:
William Somerville
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
10 Jan 1848?
Source of text:
HS 16.410, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday2046

From:
Sarah Faraday and Faraday
To:
Arthur Young
Date:
5 January 1848
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/5/04
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2047

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edmund Belfour
Date:
15 January 1848
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2047a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Date:
20 January 1848
Source of text:
Archiv der Bayer Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prot. Bd. 66, Bl. 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2048

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
27 January 1848
Source of text:
W.A.F. Burdett-Coutts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4635u

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Between 1848 to 1858
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4636u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Buchanan
Date:
Between 1848 and 1850
Source of text:
Civ.Eng.Arch.J., 1850, 13: 399
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4637u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Buchanan
Date:
Between 1848 and 1850
Source of text:
Civ.Eng.Arch.J., 1850, 13: 399
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4649u

From:
Andrew Crosse
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Between 1848 and 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

HENSLOW-1081

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
1848
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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