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DCP-LETT-570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
26 May [1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5)
Summary:

Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-570F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[2 June? 1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315)
Summary:

Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8)
Summary:

Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-587

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[Feb 1841]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 239)
Summary:

In a revise [of Birds] CD has altered "Colaptes Chilensis Vigors" to "Chrysoptilus Chilensis G. R. Gray". Is that right?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[Feb–Mar 1841]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 240)
Summary:

Sends proof of index of final number of Birds for checking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7381(i))
Summary:

Believes "absurd letter" hastily read at last Geological Society Council meeting was from Charlesworth’s solicitor. Suggests that it may have been sent to entrap the Council and that it should be read over carefully.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1005

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
British Library Literary Fund
Date:
5th April 1843
Source of text:
British Library Lit fund Anniv Dinner Papers 1843 Vol 7 No 3
Summary:

JSH writes to decline an offer to accept the office of Steward at the anniversary dinner for the Literary Fund Society. Explains this is due to commitments lecturing at Cambridge and in the region of his Hitcham parish.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
29 [Sept 1843]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 228–9)
Summary:

Says he will call tomorrow to examine indicated specimens and books at Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-227

From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 December 1844
Source of text:
British Library Add. 35230: 93-97 [ALS 9 pp]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-983G

From:
James Francis Stephens
To:
Robert Peel, 2d baronet
Date:
8 June 1846
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 40593: 187–91 Papers of Sir Robert Peel)
Summary:

Petitions for a Civil Pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1016

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[1 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4606u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
After 1846
Source of text:
BL add MS 37199, f.190
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[19 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2)
Summary:

Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-242

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
4 April 1848
Source of text:
British Library Add. 37194: 149-150
Summary:

Discusses establishment of the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew by William Jackson Hooker; asks about how to find a book of paper samples like one owned by Babbage for the Museum.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1008

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
British Library Literary Fund
Date:
8 May 1849
Source of text:
British Library Lit fund Anniv Dinner Papers 1849 Vol 10 No 5
Summary:

JSH writes to decline invitation to anniversary dinner of the Royal Corporation of the Literary Fund. Explains this is due to commitments lecturing at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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