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DCP-LETT-953

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54c
Summary:

Has had to make a Post Office order to JDH payable at Charing Cross instead of Kew.

Does Sir William [Hooker] know the Dean of Manchester’s London address?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1261

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 February 1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.23, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel8782

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William J. Hooker
Date:
[17 February 1846]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:

Notes a small error in materials WH sent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-954

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thompson
Date:
18 Feb [1846?]
Source of text:
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Summary:

Thanks for note on Atlantic dust.

Suggested in private to Edward Forbes that bird migration might follow lines of now sunken land.

Has admired WT’s work for years.

Will some day publish on variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-324

From:
Albert Way
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 349
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel4153

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.286
Summary:

Asks JH's advice on the purchase of the lunar model. Anxious to see JH's new method of calculating double star orbits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11974

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.336
Summary:

Has JH any comments on the first volume of JM's Logic, which the publisher wishes to prepare for a second edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4563

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[20 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.268
Summary:

Suggests trustees of British Museum make an offer for Mme. Witte's lunar model. Cape Results at press. Observed double comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE289

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Feb 1846
Source of text:
HS 16.353, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2662

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.353
Summary:

Delighted that her paper was read at Royal Society. Discusses discovery of new planet [Neptune], and the future. Asks about his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1829a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William John Broderip
Date:
23 February 1846
Source of text:
British Astronomical Association MS Autograph Letters - Astronomers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4452

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.287
Summary:

Double star orbits not ready; R.A.S. waiting for JH's new calculating method. Reads accounts of Biela's Comet. Describes Edinburgh Observatory in detail.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56c
Summary:

Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-956

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 151
Summary:

Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-955

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 55
Summary:

Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].

Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1830

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie
Date:
26 February 1846
Source of text:
RS MS MC 4.128
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1831

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 February 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 374
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-234

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
28 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel11975

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.337
Summary:

Thanks for his remarks, which will be attended to. Comments on the various alterations he will make in line with JH's criticisms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1832

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
28 February 1846
Source of text:
RI MS G F17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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