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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
8 Dec 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/57)
Summary:
The measurements are looking better, but he would still like more checks made.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Dec 1847
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/58)
Summary:
Has now authoratative datum for height of Hawick Railway above the sea.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1848?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/62)
Summary:
Memorandum: Remarks on Mr Kemp’s table.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
18 Feb 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/59)
Summary:
Is about to send his manuscript to the printers, and asks for any late additions.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
2 Mar 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/60)
Summary:
RC still wants some heights checked.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
14 Mar 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/61)
Summary:
Thanks for the re-measurements. RC has found more interesting geology in Northumberland and County Durham.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Apr 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/63)
Summary:
Has received measurements of alluvial terraces at Crawford.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
14 Apr 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/64)
Summary:
Surprised to receive WK’s measurements from Teviotdale.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[June 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C1–C2
Summary:
Congratulates RC on his work on Scottish sea-margins [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered him in favour of the glacier view, but now his opinion has reverted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 Sept 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/68)
Summary:
RC’s rebuttal of claims that he had passed over WK’s part in the researches (Athenaeum, 23 September 1848, pp. 958–9).
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/69a)
Summary:
A second attempt by RC to defend his conduct.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
William Kemp
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
12 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/70)
Summary:
WK hopes the subject is now closed.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
30 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 258
Summary:
Thanks RC for "Ice and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)].
Comments on problem of scientific accuracy.
Discusses views of Thomas Davidson on the genealogy of brachiopods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project