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DCP-LETT-347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2)
Summary:

CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
18 June [1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3)
Summary:

Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.

Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:

Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Feb [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4)
Summary:

Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Apr [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6)
Summary:

Thanks WW for wedding gift.

Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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