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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[1853–72?]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London)
Summary:

If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
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:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
13 October 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/4, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Clark Ross
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
3 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/94, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
6 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/19/113, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John William Lubbock
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
6 February 1855
Source of text:
MM/17/11, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[6 February 1855]
Source of text:
RS MM 19.113
Summary:

Discusses proposal to fix up the aerial telescope of Christiaan Huygens so as to compare his drawings of Saturn with observations made by contemporary observers using Huygens's telescope. Expresses skepticism about the project.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
20 April [1855]
Source of text:
MM/19/8, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
6 October 1855
Source of text:
MM/19/9, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
19 December 1855
Source of text:
MM/19/10, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
17 January 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/11, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
22 July 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/12, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
30th July 1856
Source of text:
MS RR/3/193, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
4 September 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
24 October 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/14, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
26 October 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/87, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
13 November 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/163, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society