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DCP-LETT-1142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[July 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Summary:

Writes about Emma’s trust account investments and calls due upon them. Sends his record and asks JW to bring it up to date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[5 or 12] July 1848
Source of text:
DAR 143: 306
Summary:

Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A18–A20
Summary:

Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.

Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".

Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1189A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
10 July 1848
Source of text:
British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45)
Summary:

Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1189F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
13 July [1848]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 22 July 1848, p. 491
Summary:

Reports on the effect of potato blight in his crop.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1190

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 4
Summary:

Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[15 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 307
Summary:

Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[20 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 308
Summary:

Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.

Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1193

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July [1848]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.

Forwarding breeding pamphlets.

JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.

CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.

Hugh Falconer’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001568

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Stanley Gibson
Date:
25 July 1848
Source of text:
MM/21/1, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE299

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Herschel
Date:
15 Jul 1848
Source of text:
HS 1.202, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE3

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
8 Jul 1848
Source of text:
MSA 1 / 211, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE376

From:
M H Jenkins
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
24 Jul 1848
Source of text:
MS J 2 / 25, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10329

From:
William A. Baillie- Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.211
Summary:

Regarding an appendix to W. J. Hooker's article for the Admiralty Manual by [Augustin] Creuze if it is not already covered by Hooker.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10330

From:
William A. Baillie- Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.212
Summary:

George Eden (1st Earl of Auckland) concurs in JH's view that [Augustin] Creuze's letter should form an appendix to the article by W. J. Hooker.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10331

From:
William A. Baillie- Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.213
Summary:

Accompanying packet has just arrived from [Richard?] Owen. Appears that it will make the Admiralty Manual larger. Would like JH's views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10893

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.242
Summary:

Sending a letter on the Orthography of the African language from a friend of his, the Rev. Henry Venn. Would be grateful if JH could help him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10989

From:
Manuel John Johnson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.335
Summary:

Encloses a letter from W. J. Burchell, the African traveller, showing the variability of Argus. Has added a 10 foot telescope to the instruments at the Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11404

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.315
Summary:

Sends a description of a large meteor he observed last night. Since his letter he has erected a meteorological observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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