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DCP-LETT-113

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
1 Sept [1831]
Source of text:
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no. 3, p. 233)
Summary:

Believes he has found a "savant" for FitzRoy in CD, whom he describes as grandson of Erasmus Darwin and "full of zeal and enterprize".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6194

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.319 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Is much obliged for his advice regarding [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue. Will send him the proof sheets as available. Has he seen Gerard Moll's Decline of Science in England?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6195

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.320 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

Is grateful for his observations on the method of printing [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue. Fearon Fallows is seriously ill; does JH know of a suitable successor?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6196

From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 September 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.321 & ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book
Summary:

His views on a successor to the Cape Astronomer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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