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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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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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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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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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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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