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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

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

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.

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John Herschel Project
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