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DCP-LETT-1463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A85–A88
Summary:

Sends cirripede specimens for Ipswich Museum.

Asks how much a village fireworks display would cost.

Comments on the need in education for good habits of expression and accurate observation instead of making "wretched Latin verses".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss
Date:
21 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Asks to borrow FK’s specimen of Conia rosea. Would like to know if FK collected it himself [in S. Africa] or was given it, because CD has a closely allied species from Australia, which surprises him. [See Living Cirripedia 2: 335.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1465F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
24 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam White
Date:
26 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Testimonials of Adam White, F.L.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum [1854], p. 15 (National Library of Scotland, 3.2043(6))
Summary:

Testimonial letter expressing CD’s high opinion of AW’s zoological attainments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
26 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asks Thomas Salt to accept the repayment of a mortgage from Captain Muckleston’s executors, if Josiah Wedgwood agrees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
30 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (James E. Murdoch Papers, Mss. 667)
Summary:

Will send JR’s box of cirripedes on Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE582

From:
Jean Plana
To:
?Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Dec 1851
Source of text:
MSP 4 / 266, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday2478

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Ellison Portlock
Date:
1 December 1851
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 289-92
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2479

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
6 December 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D07
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2480

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
8 December 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D08
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2481

From:
Warren De La Rue
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 December 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2482

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
16 December 1851
Source of text:
UB MS NS 399
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2483

From:
John Percy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 December 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2484

From:
Paul Frederick Henry Baddeley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 December 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2485

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
24 December 1851
Source of text:
RGO 6/404, f.35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2486

From:
Albert Richard Smith
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 December 1851
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2486a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Macomie
Date:
26 December 1851
Source of text:
Sheila Elliott
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2487

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 December 1851
Source of text:
RGO 6/404, f.36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1217

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. C. Dale
Date:
29 December 1851
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections, James Charles Dale Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1268

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles R. Bree
Date:
25 December 1851
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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