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Herschel1690

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 August 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.176
Summary:

Tells JH about artifact exhibition AS has set up, and about preparation for publication of some astronomical observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE588

From:
Baden Powell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
9 Aug 1837
Source of text:
MSP 5 / 280, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 38 DAR/1/1/38)
Summary:

Botanical queries for Journal of researches, which is about to go to press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl
Date:
2 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks WS to write to his friend to make his corrections [in CD’s MS of Journal of researches] in ink.

Capt. FitzRoy agrees with the propriety of beginning to print [CD’s volume separately] at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-370

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
3 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/3/123)
Summary:

Asks to withdraw abstract of his paper on coral formations ["Elevation and subsidence in the Pacific" (1838), Collected papers 1: 46–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-370A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
3 Aug 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

With the encouragement of several scientific gentlemen and supported by the opinions of the Presidents of the three Learned Societies, CD ventures to request a grant of £1000 from Government to cover the cost of 150 engravings to illustrate results of his Beagle collections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
[9 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Library of Congress (Rare book and special collection division)
Summary:

Suggests coming to visit on Monday. Sends the Misses Horner a segment of wedding cake from Shrewsbury [marriage of Caroline Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood III].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-370F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
[11 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
Scott Polar Research Institute (MS 1503/16/2)
Summary:

Chancellor of the Exchequer has ordered £1000 for the publication of the Zoology. Would like to meet JR to ask his advice on one or two points.

Thanks for his long account of the climate of North America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 39 DAR/1/1/39)
Summary:

Reports his successful interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Thomas Spring Rice] about a grant for publishing [Zoology]. Thanks JSH for help with this; "you have been the making of me from the first".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-374

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
28 Aug [1837]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-76)
Summary:

Proof-sheets [of Journal of researches] are tumbling in. Mentions future plans for Zoology and geological works. Has £1000 from Government for illustrations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-375

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 Aug 1837]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1024

From:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 August 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I018
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10133

From:
James William Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.20
Summary:

Is grateful for the loan of the book. Comments on some of [Alexander?] Stewart's works, especially his Gaelic ones. Queries regarding light in William Buckland's Bridgewater treatise; would like to borrow the volume if possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-376

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug and 5 Sept 1837
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3
Summary:

Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.

Has met warm reception in Germany.

Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss.

Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living.

CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1020

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
1 August 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 A11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1021

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Gravatt
Date:
3 August 1837
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 18, f.139
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1022

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Webster
Date:
14 August 1837
Source of text:
Yale University Library, Eng.Misc.MSS, 753, Box 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1023a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Webster
Date:
15 August 1837
Source of text:
WTDC WLMS STANGER / 1 / 186.4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1023

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jerdan
Date:
15 August 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1025

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Hawkins
Date:
21 August 1837
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 93
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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