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 |
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- … History of Biology 10: 107–53. Whewell, William. 1837. History of the inductive sciences, …
- … c 88: 6) Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 16 Apr [1839] William Whewell …
- … See letter from William Whewell, 11 April 1839 . Whewell 1837 . CD’s annotated copy is in …
From William Whewell 11 April 1839
Summary
Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.
| Author: | William Whewell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-504 |
To William Whewell 16 February [1839]
Summary
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496 |
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- … Bibliography Whewell, William. 1839. Address to the Geological Society, delivered at the …
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- … Whewell 1839 , p. 93). See also Correspondence vol. 30, Supplement, letter to William …
From William Whewell 2 January 1860
Summary
Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".
| Author: | William Whewell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2634 |
To William Whewell 4 [January 1839]
Summary
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 4 [Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-483 |
To William Whewell 18 June [1837]
Summary
Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.
Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 18 June [1837] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361 |
To William Whewell [10 March 1837]
Summary
CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | [10 Mar 1837] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-347 |
Ruse, Michael. 1991. William Whewell: omniscientist. In William Whewell. A composite portrait, edited by Menachem Fisch and Simon Schaffer. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Whewell, William. 1854. Of the plurality of worlds: an essay. Also a dialogue on the same subject. 2d ed. London.
Whewell, William. 1840. The philosophy of the inductive sciences, founded upon their history. 2 vols. London and Cambridge.
Whewell, William. 1837. History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present times. 3 vols. London.
Whewell, William. 1833b. Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to natural theology. London: William Pickering.
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 |
Whewell, William. 1845. Of a liberal education in general; and with particular reference to the leading studies of the University of Cambridge. London.
Whewell, William. 1838. Address to the Geological Society, delivered at the anniversary, on the 16th of February, 1838. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 624-49.
Whewell, William. 1839. Address to the Geological Society, delivered at the anniversary, on the 15th February, 1839. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 (1838–42): 61–98.
Whewell, William. 1833a. Essay towards a first approximation to a map of cotidal lines. [Read 2 May 1833.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 123: 147–236.
Whewell, William. 1835. Architectural notes on German churches. A new edition. To which is now added, notes written during an architectural tour in Picardy and Normandy. Cambridge.
Todhunter, Isaac. 1876. William Whewell, DD, master of Trinity College, Cambridge: an account of his writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
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