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DCP-LETT-1051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65)
Summary:

Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.

Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].

Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (PEARSON/10/1)
Summary:

Comments on manuscript [? "On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1849): 111–29]. Discusses phenomenon of cleavage. Will write to J. D. Forbes about DS’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[24 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58)
Summary:

Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.

Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-238

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
25 January 1847
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3133
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel6961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[28 January 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.297
Summary:

Thanks for the pains about a translator [see JH's 1847-1-8]; preparing biographical information about F. W. Bessel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0327

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Margaret Ginty
Date:
Jan. 29. 1847
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3637, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel422

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 January 1847]
Source of text:
RGO 6.229.309
Summary:

Seeks GA's opinion about including a specific passage in F. W. Bessel's obituary notice for the R.A.S. Also inquires about the printing of the star catalogues of N. L. Lacaille and J. J. L. Lalande.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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