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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1848?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/62)
Summary:
Memorandum: Remarks on Mr Kemp’s table.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 96
Summary:
[Valediction only.] CD note on verso: Athenaeum/48/p. 839 "E. Forbes on genera being continuous in time––good––fact".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
[1848]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 189
Summary:
Seeks excuse from jury duty on grounds of ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
18 Feb 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/59)
Summary:
Is about to send his manuscript to the printers, and asks for any late additions.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
2 Mar 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/60)
Summary:
RC still wants some heights checked.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
14 Mar 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/61)
Summary:
Thanks for the re-measurements. RC has found more interesting geology in Northumberland and County Durham.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Apr 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A17
Summary:
Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Apr 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/63)
Summary:
Has received measurements of alluvial terraces at Crawford.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Fred Calvert
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 April 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 58
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
14 Apr 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/64)
Summary:
Surprised to receive WK’s measurements from Teviotdale.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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
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
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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From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 May 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 103
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 May 1848
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112
Summary:
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20–1 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 27
Summary:
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 28
Summary:
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 29
Summary:
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 30
Summary:
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[27–8 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 31
Summary:
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
