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From:
William Sharpey
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
10 January 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/83, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
H Hoe & Co
To:
George A Halsted
Date:
16 January 1854
Source of text:
MM/21/43, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
31 Jan [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 389)
Summary:

Declines the honour of writing a biography of Leopold von Buch, on grounds that he would not do it well; nor does he hold Buch so high as the world at large does.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 390)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his note [missing]. CD had understood that what was wanted was a eulogy [of Leopold von Buch] combined with historical criticism, after the French practice. Agrees that historico-critical sketches of work of great foreigners have a place in Philosophical Transactions and wishes he had taste and capacity for it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/125, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/124, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
28 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D20)
Summary:

Distressed to find himself in conflict with JWL on appointment of a Guardian [for the parish].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Tite
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/126, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George A Halsted
To:
CB Weld
Date:
25 May 1854
Source of text:
MM/21/44, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
18 June 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/2, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
28 June [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 386)
Summary:

Is unequal to taking chair as President of Natural History Section of BAAS meeting in Liverpool. Very little fatigue or excitement brings on swimming of head, nausea, and other symptoms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
July 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/4, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
27 July 1854
Source of text:
MM/21/5, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl Rosse
Date:
27 July 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/3, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl Rosse
Date:
4 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/5, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
5 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/3, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
26 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/10/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
K Kreil
To:
Royal Society
Date:
2 September 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/6, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Johann Lamont
To:
Royal Society
Date:
4 September 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/7, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
17 September 1854
Source of text:
MM/11/60, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society