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To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … William Whewell, 11 April 1839 . Whewell 1837 . CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. According to CD’s record of his reading (DAR 119; Vorzimmer 1977 ) he read Whewell 1837 in the autumn of 1838, noting ‘References at end’. CD had obtained a copy of the work in 1837 (see letter to Charles Babbage, [ …
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … William Whewell Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet Charles Lyell, 1st baronet Charles Stokes William John Hamilton Edward Stanley Richard Owen William Clift Charles Babbage …
- … Whewell, William Murchison, R. I. Lyell, Charles Stokes, Charles Hamilton, W. J. Stanley, Edward Owen, Richard Clift, William Babbage, …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Whewell, William | |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
| Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Roget, P. M. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Stanley, Edward | (1) |
| Stokes, Charles | (1) |
| Taylor, John | (1) |
