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SOMERVILLE90

From:
William Buckland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
29 Jan 1832
Source of text:
MSB 15 / 426, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

RS-MM-000590

From:
George William Featherstonehaugh
To:
William Buckland
Date:
15 May 1832
Source of text:
MM/10/152, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3124

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[16 August 1832]
Source of text:
St. John's College, Cambridge
Summary:

Accepts position on Council of B.A.A.S. Approves of next meeting's being held at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[15 June 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Describes the two species of lizard [Amblyrhynchus] found in the Galapagos Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5854

From:
William Buckland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.323
Summary:

Sending a copy of W. D. Conybeare's most recent publication; also his own Bridgewater treatise. Is grateful for his gift of luminous animals, which he has deposited in the College of Surgeons. Richard Owen has been giving the best lectures ever given. Dr. [William?] Smith is to exhibit his collection at Bulloch's museum. Is anxious to know what kind of fossil quadrupeds are to be found at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3444

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Buckland
Date:
1837-11
Source of text:
RS Bu.83
Summary:

Thanks for paper. Discusses fossils, 'singular' land formation in Cape area. Asks WB to remember JH to 'geological friends' and tell [Charles] Daubeny of JH's specimen of Daubeny's root.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-404

From:
William Buckland
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
9 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47)
Summary:

Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5855

From:
William Buckland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.324
Summary:

Three positions are vacant at Oxford due to the death of S. P. Rigaud. Would JH be interested in applying for them as it would be a great honor to have him at Oxford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-518

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 176
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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