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DCP-LETT-2026

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 79
Summary:

Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.

GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1569

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Vincent Walker
Date:
April 1844
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8310

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[1844-4]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.116 (C: 22.214)
Summary:

Willing to chair B.A.A.S. meeting next year, provided no other duties are imposed on JH's time and that no one else desires that office.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11288

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lemon
Date:
[1844-4]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.191 & 22.186
Summary:

Would like CL to use his influence to obtain a place in Christ's Hospital for one of Robert Hunt's sons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9664

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.14
Summary:

Sending back a note, which JH had included by mistake with the proof of F. W. Bessel's letter. Thanks for his corrections to the proof.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1570

From:
Jean Pierre Joseph D'Arcet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 April 1844
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. W. A. Argelander
Date:
[3 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.373 & 22.187
Summary:

Thanking him for his Uranography; comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8519

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste André Dumas
Date:
[3 April 1844]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Thanks JD for sending JD's Mémoires de chimie, which JH praises lavishly as a contribution to organic chemistry of 'great importance and originality.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1078

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Longman and Co.
Date:
[3 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.22
Summary:

Is submitting a list of corrections for the astronomy section of the Cabinet Cyclopedia. Proposes a major new work on astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-745

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 12–13
Summary:

Answer to CD’s query on genera and species ranges.

Comments on typical forms.

Preparing first part of Galapagos plants for printing.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1571a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Bell Ford
Date:
5 April 1844
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1846 [703] XLIII, Appendix I, p.40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1571

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Date:
5 April 1844
Source of text:
BrUL MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1572

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 April 1844
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6914

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.188
Summary:

Thanks for all the help with the benefit society material.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6915

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.203
Summary:

Hopes Richard Farley's proof was in order. Gives details of steel pens he uses. Picture he sends is by W. H. Smyth. Is moving to new address.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9665

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.15
Summary:

Advice on how to obtain admission to Christ's Hospital for one of JH's sons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday1573

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
9 April 1844
Source of text:
GL MS 30108A/1, p.201
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9666

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.16
Summary:

Name of Prince Albert's private secretary is G. E. Anson. He is abroad at the present but sees he will be soon returning.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4353

From:
James [Struthers] Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.10
Summary:

Sends JH bulbs of Cape flowers to plant. Thanks him for sending JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Describes the obelisk placed on JH's telescope site at Feldhausen. Reports of effort to install improved roads in the colony. Construction of St. George's Church completed. Describes planned Botanical Garden at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1572

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Challis
Date:
[11 April 1844]
Source of text:
CUOL 1844.25
Summary:

A note of thanks upon receipt of the thirteenth volume of the observations of the Cambridge Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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