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FL-0353

From:
Darwin, Catherine
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-1214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
[1 May – 5 June 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 131
Summary:

Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1425F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, 12th duke of Somerset
Date:
May 1851
Source of text:
Julian Browning (dealer) (Catalogue 10, ‘Historical Manuscripts and Documents’)
Summary:

Testimonial on behalf of J. D. Hooker, addressed to Lord Seymour as Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Woods and Forests, signed by CD and many other scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310)
Summary:

Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
6 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 385
Summary:

Congratulates JD on discovery of fossil footsteps near Port Philip, Australia. Richard Owen would be glad to examine them. J. B. Jukes most likely to know geology of Port Philip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Stewart Dismorr
Date:
15 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 386
Summary:

Comments on concretionary bodies found by JD. Encourages him to continue geological study.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1428F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
25 May [1851]
Source of text:
Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209)
Summary:

Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Ball
Date:
26 May [1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows’ Papers 54.ii)
Summary:

Obliged for letter about cirripedes attached to turtles’ backs. Genus is Chelonobia, Leach. Cirripedes do not penetrate skin, but surrounding tissue grows up around them.

Asks RB to send S. American Balanus. Already has specimens from Irish coast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001094

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
23 May 1851
Source of text:
MM/16/131, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2409

From:
Matthew Fontaine Maury and George Manning
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 and 23 April 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2417

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Novello
Date:
1 May 1851
Source of text:
Knox College Galesburg MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2418

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Thomas De La Beche
Date:
6 May 1851
Source of text:
British Geological Survey MS GSM1/507
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2419

From:
William Spence
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 May 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2420

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Ridout
Date:
8 May 1851
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2421

From:
Alfred Swaine Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 May 1851
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2422

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alfred Swaine Taylor
Date:
14 May 1851
Source of text:
DUL, Great Britain, papers (Misc) Vol 1 (1795-1869), p.64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2423

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
15 May 1851
Source of text:
RS MS RR 2.215
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2424

From:
George Ransome
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 May 1851
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.118
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2425

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mrs Smyth
Date:
22 May 1851
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2426

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George William Blunt
Date:
22 May 1851
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society MS Washburn 273
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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