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DCP-LETT-116

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 65
Summary:

Reports on his geological work in N. Wales since he and CD parted. Answers CD’s queries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-129

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1831
Source of text:
DAR 204: 66
Summary:

Is glad of CD’s appointment and hopes it will be a source of happiness and honour.

Answers a query about books.

Suggests CD go to Geological Society, present himself, as AS’s friend, to William Lonsdale and study the Society’s collection.

Tells CD of his work in Wales; includes a diagram and explanations.

Ramsay’s death a grievous loss.

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-459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
21 [Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652 IB: 175
Summary:

CD informs AS of the position of the Council of the Geological Society on recommending J. B. Jukes for a geological survey of Newfoundland. Feels Jukes’s application would have best chance of success if Sedgwick, his Professor at Cambridge, wrote a letter.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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