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DCP-LETT-1545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[before May 1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 303
Summary:

Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."

Hopes his health is re-established.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-805

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[before May 1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 304
Summary:

Agrees that naval expeditions to the Arctic are a waste of money. Believes Sir J. Barrow responsible. "Dr [Richard?] King is quite right in the advantage of Land Expeditions".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 305
Summary:

May go to Paris next summer about barnacles.

Unable to appreciate second volume of Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos [1848].

Recommends review by Sir John Herschel [Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229].

Recommends book by Mary Somerville [Physical geography (1848)].

Mentions article [on species] by M. E. Chevreul [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 3d ser. 6 (1846): 142–214].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2079

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
1 May 1848
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6982

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1848-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.24
Summary:

Arrangements for meeting with AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6540

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Joshua Cooper
Date:
[1 May 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.25
Summary:

Congratulates EC on 'Thetis' [proposed name for asteroid Metis]; J. R. Hind has discovered a new star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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