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DCP-LETT-347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2)
Summary:

CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
18 June [1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3)
Summary:

Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.

Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9094

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 July 1837]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20729 (C: RS:HS 21.224)
Summary:

Reports on JH's efforts to secure tidal observations for WW, the Duke of Northumberland's offer to finance the printing of JH's Cape astronomical observations, and JH's sighting of Saturn's sixth satellite. Encourages WW's efforts to write a philosophy of the inductive sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9095

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[20 August 1837]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20730 (C: RS:HS 21.228)
Summary:

Thanks for WW's History of the Inductive Sciences and for dedicating it to JH. Has read volume I, being especially impressed by WW's stress on hypothesizing. Recounts difficulties in getting tidal observations for WW. Is sending back a large number of JH's astronomical observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1042

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
12 October 1837
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1045

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
25 October 1837
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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