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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
5 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
Summary:

Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:

CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.

CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.

Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.

Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.

Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.

No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.

Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[15 or 22] Oct 1848
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.

Very unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
22 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274)
Summary:

Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/66)
Summary:

AS has come to Great Yarmouth to recuperate. If WK’s idea of the formation of the stone is correct he may find other examples.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/69a)
Summary:

A second attempt by RC to defend his conduct.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
William Kemp
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
12 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/70)
Summary:

WK hopes the subject is now closed.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
James Tod
To:
William Kemp
Date:
17 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/71)
Summary:

The Prize Committee of the RSSA would like a few more facts about WK’s method of economising on fuel for gas works.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
William Kemp
To:
George Murray
Date:
18 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/72)
Summary:

WK explains that although he has effected improvements he cannot ask GM for a certificate because there has not been enough time to demonstrate them.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
14 Oct 1848
Source of text:
91, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c. October 1848
Source of text:
UB MS NS 387
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Henry Thomas De La Beche
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 October 1848
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 October 1848
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Frederick Madan
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 October 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Brough George Maltby
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 October 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
10 October 1848
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
14 October 1848
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
14 October 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
29 October 1848
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Dawson Turner Correspondence O.14.45, Letter 132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project