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Faraday1371

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alexander Dallas Bache
Date:
12 November 1841
Source of text:
SI A Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869, Box 3, Folder 2
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-811

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
[c. Jan 1845]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (George P. Merrill photograph collection, Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009765)
Summary:

Asks about Fuegian specimens stored at the Geological Society. CD needs them soon.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1717

From:
Joseph Henry
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 April 1845
Source of text:
SI A Joseph Henry Collection, 1808, 1825-1878 and related papers to circa 1903, Box 8.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 Oct [1845]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.

Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,

to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],

his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.

Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Mallet
Date:
26 Aug [1846]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
11 Sept 1847
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Comments on David Milne’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. CD still believes in marine origin. Rejects barrier of detritus at mouth of Glen Roy. If roads were formed by lake, it must have been ice-lake.

Comments on evidence of glaciers and icebergs in North Wales. Thinks pass caused by tidal channel, not river. Suggests that RC make altitude measurements at various points.

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