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SOMERVILLE439

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1838
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 144, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

RS-MM-000464

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
6 January 1838
Source of text:
MM/9/44, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-351

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 81)
Summary:

CD is much obliged for invitations to CB’s parties, but is afraid to accept because he would meet people to whom he has sworn he never goes out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 295/1, vol. VI., Misc. pp. 85–8)
Summary:

Sends suggestions for points that would interest geologists in a description of valleys in the Blue Mountains [New South Wales].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-399A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Jan 1838]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990)
Summary:

Would like to call upon RO to discuss the last engravings sent by George Scharf. CD assumes that the revise of Toxodon [see 395] was received.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[21 Jan 1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 320)
Summary:

Asks Babbage to take small parcel to Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[21 Jan 1838]
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Dreer collection)
Summary:

Sends rock specimen for W. H. Miller. Asks JSH to see whether there is any geology in P. B. Webb and Sabin Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries [1835–50]. Finds his work on geology growing so large that it will take more than one volume and asks whether this will make publication aid more difficult.

Has accepted Secretaryship of the Geological Society.

Will not come to Cambridge because "as long as I continue well I cannot bear to leave my work for half a day".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1057a

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
15 January 1838
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.43-51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12206

From:
George Thomas Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.63
Summary:

Regrets that the Herschels were not allowed in when they called; he had given strict instructions that they should be shown in immediately. Grieves to hear of the short stay of the Herschels. Would like to talk to him privately on the State and the policy pursued.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12564

From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.434
Summary:

Has made meteorological observations as desired by JH, and has sent and received various sets of such observations. Would like to come to England to visit JH, but first wants to find a husband for his only daughter. GP's assistant at the observatory died and he is looking for a replacement. [Many parts of the letter are illegible.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4516

From:
James Prinsep
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.75
Summary:

Sends drawings of India landscapes. Speaks of JH's return to England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14796

From:
Lord John Russell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1224; Reel 1060
Summary:

Royal warrant appointing Board of Visitors to Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4622u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
1838 or 1839
Source of text:
Seeley G. Mudd Library of the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1056

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barrow
Date:
1 January 1838
Source of text:
PRO ADM222 / 12, file number 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1058

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
17 January 1838
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1059

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
22 January 1838
Source of text:
UB MS NS 322
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1060

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
22 January 1838
Source of text:
APS MS B G784
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1061

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Gage
Date:
22 January 1838
Source of text:
ULC MS Hengrave 21/9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1063

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Date:
24 January 1838
Source of text:
DM HS 782
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1057

From:
Olinthus Gilbert Gregory
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 January 1838
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I028
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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