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DCP-LETT-1234

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A7–A8
Summary:

Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1236

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 113
Summary:

CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.

JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?

CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.

Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[24 June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 143
Summary:

Declines to canvass for Richard King.

Water-cure has benefited health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:

Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.

CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.

CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A92–A95
Summary:

Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.

His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1260

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Oct 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 116
Summary:

CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.

Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.

Details of water-cure.

Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.

Lamination of gneiss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1266

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[24 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 332
Summary:

Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.

Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1283

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[7 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A89–A90
Summary:

Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,

and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[before 12 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A91
Summary:

J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13801

From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 146
Summary:

On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP87

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Feb [1849?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/67)
Summary:

Apologises for late acknowledgment of a specimen and two letters received in October. The fragments are now in the Museum.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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HENSLOW-1162

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
24 November 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library RGO6(371)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1163

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 November 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library RGO6(371)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-335

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 January 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 281
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-336

From:
William Whewell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 March 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 352
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-337

From:
William Whewell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 March 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 353
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-338

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 April 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 248
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-339

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 April 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 249
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-340

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 August 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-341

From:
Francis K. Eagle
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 October 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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