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DCP-LETT-496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Feb [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4)
Summary:

Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9103

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
22 February [1839]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20736 (C: RS:HS 22.3)
Summary:

Requests WW and George Peacock to judge the appropriateness of expending B.A.A.S. funds for some instruments for the Breslau Magnetic Observatory. Mentions other matters relating to the meteorology committee.

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John Herschel Project
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