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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[after 12 July 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 16
Summary:

Inquires about the nature of some money recently paid to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Smith of Jordanhill
Date:
4 July [1851]
Source of text:
Glasgow City Archives (396/TD1)
Summary:

Discusses the Jura blocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society
Date:
7 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.99)
Summary:

Asks to borrow woodcut from Palaeontographical Society for use in Living Cirripedia, vol. 1.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 July [1851]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 2)
Summary:

Thanks for report [on echinoderms, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 1–19]. Wanted to learn about metamorphosis of the class. Agrees with THH’s distinction between individuals and zooids, but thinks zooids will never cease to be called individuals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
19 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Finds he needs four woodcuts for the introduction [to vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia], which calls for quick action. Will send entire MS by the end of the month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
22 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Will bring MS [of vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] on the last day of July, and proofs of the eight plates now engraved will be sent soon. CD has failed to get materials for the one coloured plate he wanted, so none will be in colour. There will be ten altogether. He will ask later whether he must pay for the extra one. G. B. Sowerby Jr comes next day to complete drawings for two not yet engraved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Newport
Date:
24 July [1851]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Asks to borrow an old pair of GN’s dissecting scissors so that Weiss & Co. can use it as a model.

Health has been poor.

Has finished MS on pedunculated cirripedes for Ray Society [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
26 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks EL whether he should use both Latin and English descriptions of specific characters [in vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
30 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends completed MS [vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] with instructions for the printers; reviews number of plates and woodcuts, and offers to pay for extras and for excess corrections, if they occur. Hopes the Council [of the Ray Society] will print his second volume at the end of the ensuing year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
To:
George Clerk
Date:
18 July 1851
Source of text:
MM/21/36, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Charles-Nicolas-Alexandre Haldat Du Lys
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
July 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Nathaniel Wallich
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 July 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Ellis
Date:
16 July 1851
Source of text:
BM CA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Tom Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 July 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Henry
Date:
23 July 1851
Source of text:
SI A, JHC, Box 10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Julius Plücker
Date:
23 July 1851
Source of text:
NRCC ISTI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
27 July 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D04
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 July 1851
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4009-12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles R. Bree
Date:
22 July 1851
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.293
Summary:

Regarding the Tithe question. Thinks there are some in the parish who would sign a document for JH. Would he let him know the form to adopt.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project