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DCP-LETT-2983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
14 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Thanks JP for copy of his Life on the earth [1860].

Is sorry, but not surprised, to see that JP is "dead against" CD on the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4340F

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Phillips
Date:
12 Nov 1863
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Summary:

Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].

Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001584

From:
John Phillips
To:
unknown
Date:
22 November 1866
Source of text:
MM/21/19, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel14227

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001585

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir Edward Sabine, President, Royal Society
Date:
27 December 1867
Source of text:
MM/21/20, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-6580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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