From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.177
Summary:
More about lack of success of exhibition, and about publication of observations [see AS's 1837-8-27].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.189
Summary:
Is pleased to hear the Herschels are contemplating their return but regrets it will not be via Rio. J. D. Forbes is progressing well, may be in danger of overwork. Thomas Henderson too is doing good work at the Observatory. Gives results of lunar eclipses of Oct. 1837.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 December 1837
Source of text:
Bianchi (1874), 65
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
31 December 1837
Source of text:
UB MS NS 321
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[c. Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14)
Summary:
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
3 Dec [1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.
Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[4 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Is sorry the fish [for Zoology] give LJ so much trouble. Urges him not to give up. Describes publication plan of Zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[11 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 53)
Summary:
Writes following his visit to WDF.
Mentions fossils Fox has collected.
News of Albert Way.
Hensleigh Wedgwood has resigned his post because of scruples about taking oaths.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 115
Summary:
Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.9)
Summary:
Responds to Lyell’s query [missing] about northern and southern limits of coral islands of the Pacific. Warns that coral islands are much more thinly distributed than people realise and cites examples. Comments on views of Matthew Flinders. Reading work of É[lie] de B[eaumont]. Notes difficulty of setting an east-west boundary to coral islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
28 [Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209)
Summary:
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[28 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1837?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 226
Summary:
Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.
Advice on a medicine CD is taking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Gipps
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 December [1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.99
Summary:
Is grateful for his gift of flower roots; she will take great care of them on her arrival at Sydney.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
W. H. Fitton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 December 1837
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library Waller Ms alb-62:273
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.353
Summary:
Is sending him a letter of Basil Hall. William Whewell is preparing another paper on the tides and is hoping for data from JH when he returns. Hears that JH will be home in June. Looks forward to seeing him again.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gipps
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.98
Summary:
Is grateful for the paper that JH has sent; he is sure it will promote scientific knowledge in New South Wales.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 December 1837
Source of text:
PRO RAIL1149 / 3, f.177
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
1 December 1837
Source of text:
BL RP 887
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Gravatt
Date:
2 December 1837
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 18, f.190
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project