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DCP-LETT-1552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 390)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his note [missing]. CD had understood that what was wanted was a eulogy [of Leopold von Buch] combined with historical criticism, after the French practice. Agrees that historico-critical sketches of work of great foreigners have a place in Philosophical Transactions and wishes he had taste and capacity for it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1552F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 or 16] Feb 1854
Source of text:
Oliver N. Hooker (private collection)
Summary:

Has received JDH’s book [Himalayan journals (1854)]. Is very gratified by the dedication to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.

Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.

Personal affairs of several scientists.

Visit by Henslow.

Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
20 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11)
Summary:

Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker’s book [Himalayan journals].

News of Lyell from Madeira.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1554A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Gidley King
Date:
21 Feb 1854
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 1)
Summary:

PGK’s letter stirred memories of their old days in the Beagle.

Gives news of his work on cirripedes. Would like to examine Scalpellum papillosum of King from Patagonia if PGK’s father has a duplicate in his collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Palaeontographical Society
Date:
[before 24 Feb 1854]
Source of text:
British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Summary:

Letter from CD about a monograph of fossil Balanidae. Resolved that CD be asked to complete the monograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1557

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 86–9
Summary:

Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000818

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/124, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000819

From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/125, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE628

From:
Stratford de Redcliffe
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Feb 1854
Source of text:
MSS 9 / 132, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday2784

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Pierre Antoine Favre
Date:
1 February 1854
Source of text:
Pierpont Morgan Library, Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, Science no. 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2785

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2786

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 February 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2787

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Buckland
Date:
7 February 1854
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2787a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 February 1854
Source of text:
HL UG MS 2153/5/58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2788

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2789

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2790

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 February 1854
Source of text:
UB MS NS 410
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2791

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 February 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/468, f.204
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2792

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
RI MS F3 G124
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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