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Faraday4091

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dulau
Date:
5 November 1861
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4179

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Park
Date:
12 May 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4192

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Susan Miller
Date:
10 June 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4200

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ernst Becker
Date:
16 July 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3783

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
27 [Oct 1862]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.

Several of the family have had influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4282

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Cooke
Date:
1 January 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4291

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Carter Blake
Date:
21 January 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4301

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Hyde Hills
Date:
7 February 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-5436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4313

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Locock
Date:
17 March 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4442

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Arthur Phillips
Date:
8 April 1864
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4535

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Henry Pepper
Date:
11 March 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4544

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
8 April 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4549

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
11 May 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-5197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.

Making rapid progress on Variation.

Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.

Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5934B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology)
Summary:

Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.

He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6332A

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Summary:

On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.

Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.

Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.

Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.

Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Date:
2 May [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009764)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of FVH’s "Preliminary field report [of the U. S. Geological Survey] of Colorado and New Mexico" [Am. J. Sci. 49 (1870): 258–63] and Geological report [of the exploration] of the Yellowstone [and Missouri] River[s under the direction of Captain W. F. Reynolds (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.

Thanks GC for information on the perch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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