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DCP-LETT-549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
[6 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.20)
Summary:

Has been unwell.

Thanks TCE for his descriptions [of specimens for Birds]. Has already expended a high proportion of Government grant on birds, but if TCE thinks engravings are needed, he shall have them. He may keep the bones.

CD has become a father.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Basil Hall
Date:
[7 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1233

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
18 January 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1234

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
20 January 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1235

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
21 January 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1236

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
30 January 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[6 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends MS [of Coral reefs?] to be copied.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21)
Summary:

Remarks on his illness and treatment.

Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.

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HENSLOW-1237

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
24 February 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1238

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
9 March 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1239

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
28 April 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[after 5 June 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.19)
Summary:

Writes to find whether the date of the event [JMH’s marriage?] has been fixed.

Has been unwell and does not yet feel up to work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1240

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
25 June 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1121

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
18 July 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1132

From:
Robert Brown
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 August 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1015

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
21 September 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1241

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Hutton
Date:
24 October 1840
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Hutton Papers B:H978
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov 1840]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22)
Summary:

Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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