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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London
Date:
16 Mar [1852]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 226)
Summary:

Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey; Royal Society of London
Date:
19 Mar 1855
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 111)
Summary:

Recommends publication of Leonard Horner’s account of researches in alluvial deposits of Egypt [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. It contains valuable observations which will probably become of still higher value in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
18 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 112
Summary:

Reluctantly agrees to write a paper (the citation of award of the Royal Medal to J. O. Westwood [Abstracts and papers of RSL 1855]), but feels unfitted for the job.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
18 July 1856
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 40)
Summary:

Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s paper on Foraminifera, pt 2, be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 146 (1856): 547–69].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
8 Oct [1856?]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 111
Summary:

The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
27 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay)
Summary:

Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
5 Mar 1858
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 255)
Summary:

C. P. Smyth’s observations on geology and natural history of Tenerife are not precise enough to warrant publication in Philosophical Transactions. Suggests CPS draw up an abstract, for the Proceedings, of specific points actually observed, rather than conclusions arrived at on insufficient grounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
22 Mar 1858
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 147)
Summary:

Recommends Leonard Horner’s "Account of some recent researches near Cairo" for publication in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 53–9]. Believes all the details and sections should be published in full because of importance of investigations leading to the conclusion that man has existed in Egypt for over 13000 years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
28 Sept 1858
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 41)
Summary:

Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s latest part of memoir on Foraminifera be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 149 (1859): 1–41].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project