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DCP-LETT-1182

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[June 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C1–C2
Summary:

Congratulates RC on his work on Scottish sea-margins [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered him in favour of the glacier view, but now his opinion has reverted.

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DCP-LETT-1189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A18–A20
Summary:

Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.

Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".

Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.

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DCP-LETT-1188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[5 or 12] July 1848
Source of text:
DAR 143: 306
Summary:

Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1190

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 4
Summary:

Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[15 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 307
Summary:

Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-334

From:
Bishop of Ely Thomas Turton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 July 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 346
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[20 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 308
Summary:

Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.

Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-991

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
23 Aug [1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 47
Summary:

Thanks for note.

Glad DS sticks to cleavage and foliation question. Bernhard Studer one of few to take correct view on subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1621

From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 214
Summary:

He can distinguish varieties of guinea-fowl as soon as birds are hatched.

Behaviour of Malay hens.

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KEMP85

From:
William Kemp
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
20 Sep 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/65)
Summary:

When AS visited WK forgot to show him an interestingly marked specimen.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP88

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 Sept 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/68)
Summary:

RC’s rebuttal of claims that he had passed over WK’s part in the researches (Athenaeum, 23 September 1848, pp. 958–9).

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP89

From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/69a)
Summary:

A second attempt by RC to defend his conduct.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

DCP-LETT-1202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:

CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.

CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.

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KEMP90

From:
William Kemp
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
12 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/70)
Summary:

WK hopes the subject is now closed.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP86

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/66)
Summary:

AS has come to Great Yarmouth to recuperate. If WK’s idea of the formation of the stone is correct he may find other examples.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP91

From:
James Tod
To:
William Kemp
Date:
17 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/71)
Summary:

The Prize Committee of the RSSA would like a few more facts about WK’s method of economising on fuel for gas works.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP92

From:
William Kemp
To:
George Murray
Date:
18 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/72)
Summary:

WK explains that although he has effected improvements he cannot ask GM for a certificate because there has not been enough time to demonstrate them.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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HENSLOW-972

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
20 December 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:642
Summary:

Discusses sending fossils and shells to Woodwardian Collection with Adam Sedgwick and a turtle from Harwich to the Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses a letter to be read and forwarded to ‘McBeath’.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 32
Summary:

CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.

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