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DCP-LETT-390

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1837?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 226
Summary:

Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.

Advice on a medicine CD is taking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[c. Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14)
Summary:

Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1052

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
1 December 1837
Source of text:
BL RP 887
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1053

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Gravatt
Date:
2 December 1837
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 18, f.190
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
3 Dec [1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.

Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12126

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[3 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.232
Summary:

Talks about the very hot weather, and some matters of business that JH needs to work out with TM.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11842

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3] December [1837
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.201
Summary:

Availed himself of the calm weather to finish the parade measurement. Gives an account of the work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[4 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11836

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4] December [1837
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.195
Summary:

Thanks for the perusal of Capt. J. A. Lloyd's papers. Comments on Lloyd's work at Mauritius. Does not think a mural circle necessary for the observatory at Mauritius. Regarding the Parade base line at the Cape. Not easy to put the guns into the ground.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000719

From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
6 December 1837
Source of text:
MM/12/35, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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HENSLOW-1027

From:
W. H. Fitton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 December 1837
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-62:273
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[11 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 53)
Summary:

Writes following his visit to WDF.

Mentions fossils Fox has collected.

News of Albert Way.

Hensleigh Wedgwood has resigned his post because of scruples about taking oaths.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11751

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.110
Summary:

The zenith sector was brought by the Wellesley and is now at the Observatory. Outlines some observations he hopes to make with it. Is about to write to R. Thom[p]son. Has some important matters to discuss with JH when he calls.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10306

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.189
Summary:

Is pleased to hear the Herschels are contemplating their return but regrets it will not be via Rio. J. D. Forbes is progressing well, may be in danger of overwork. Thomas Henderson too is doing good work at the Observatory. Gives results of lunar eclipses of Oct. 1837.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12130

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
13] December [1837
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.238
Summary:

Some minor matters of astronomical business followed by an extended list of principles on which a constellation reform might be undertaken.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1054

From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 December 1837
Source of text:
PRO RAIL1149 / 3, f.177
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-418F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 115
Summary:

Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12730

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Dunlop
Date:
[15 December 1837]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0145; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's observations disagree with JD's 'Catalogues of Nebulae and Double Stars' [observed at Paramatta, Australia]. Believes errors lie in JD's work. Will send copy of JH's catalogue as soon as it is printed. [8pp of notes extracted by JH from JD's catalog; 7 pp of JH's comments, written in another hand, about these notes.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8874

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
1837-12-16 to 1837-1
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 4 (1838), 121-2
Summary:

Reports observations of the 'remarkable' increase in magnitude of the 'nebulous' star Eta Argus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1691

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.177
Summary:

More about lack of success of exhibition, and about publication of observations [see AS's 1837-8-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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