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DCP-LETT-1452

From:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1851
Source of text:
D. Gwyn Jeffreys (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent CD some cirripedes and notes which he hopes will be of use. Gives details of occurrence and source of some of the specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
9 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Thanks him for letter and Balanus specimen.

Acasta is curious; may be a new genus.

Is sending copy [of Fossil Cirripedia 1]. Correcting proofs [of Living Cirripedia 1].

Mentions comment by Hermann Abich on JDD’s chapters on the Sandwich Islands [in Geology (1849)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
9 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Returns fossil cirripede specimens to JS and Forchhammer.

Sends copies [of Fossil Cirripedia] to them and to Sven Lovén.

Reading proofs [of Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1455

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
28 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

G. B. Sowerby’s plates [for Living Cirripedia] are ready for the printer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP94

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
2 Sept 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/74)
Summary:

Discusses Roderick Impey Murchison’s paper on the Silurian in the south of Scotland.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP95

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
25 Sept 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/75)
Summary:

Describes his Highland tour.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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Faraday2460

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 September 1851
Source of text:
RGO 6/373, f.410
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2461

From:
D.F. Van der Pant
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 September 1851
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.129
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2462

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Caroline Deacon
Date:
4 September 1851
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2463

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
5 September 1851
Source of text:
RGO 6/373, f.411
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2464

From:
John Barlow
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
15 September 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I038
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2465

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 September 1851
Source of text:
RGO 6/373, f.199
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-259

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
19 September 1851
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.c.89: 30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-360

From:
G. R. Waterhouse
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 September 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 348
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-361

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 September 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel11792

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.151
Summary:

Hears that JH is using his influence to obtain a transit circle for the Cape. Hopes the application will be successful. Comments on the siting of the instruments. Cape politics are deplorable. Kaffir war still continues and appears likely to be expensive.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12677

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bingley
Date:
[12 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0098; Reel 1054
Summary:

Suggests how HB should request government compensation for HB's son for former services as probationer assayer and for loss of future employment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12678

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bingley
Date:
[17 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0099; Reel 1054
Summary:

Will forward HB's letter to Treasury but with note that JH did not regard HB's son as actual probationer assayer. Denies HB's claim to deserve new accommodations after HB vacates quarters at Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12682

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[6 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0103; Reel 1054
Summary:

Awards made by master [of Mint] to Moneyers should not interfere with Moneyers settling accounts among themselves.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12846

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Gilbert Farquhar Graeme Mathison
Date:
[28 September 1851]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0251 & -0252; Reel 1054
Summary:

[P.S. to letter of 28 Sept. 1851:] JH wrote to J. W. Morrison about GM's claim to melting pots in refinery. Asks GM to clarify Mint records regarding pots. [JH note: Excerpts from Mint records, 1820-1844, outlining history of stopped pots in Mint refinery.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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