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DCP-LETT-1440

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Aug – early Sept 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 98
Summary:

James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.

Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.

JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1456

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 2
Summary:

Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1460

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 82–5
Summary:

Flora of New Zealand.

Reconsidering variability of insular species.

Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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".

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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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KEMP96

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
18 Nov 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/76)
Summary:

His plans to marry.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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HENSLOW-357

From:
Algernon Pollock
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 February 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 272
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-358

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 April 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-359

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 May 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 171
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
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HENSLOW-629

From:
Richard Almack
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 January 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 2
Summary:

Discusses appointment of new trustees for JSH’s chantry lands. List of current trustees enclosed with known deaths noted.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-633

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 December 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 6 & 6(ii)
Summary:

Discusses the methods for adulteration of alcoholic drinks, including porter, ales and spirits. States that adulteration is far less harmful than the public imagine.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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