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DCP-LETT-2329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A58–9
Summary:

Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.

Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
8 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A31–2
Summary:

Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 71
Summary:

Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 [Aug 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 19 (EH 88206468)
Summary:

Invites JL to dine and meet J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Aug [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470)
Summary:

Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.

Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2626

From:
J. B. Bacon
To:
Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale
Date:
[1857–62?]
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 93
Summary:

Heath is generally cut every six years, often in order to provide young growth for grazing. Also, the heath is in good condition for burning at six years growth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469)
Summary:

Dining with the Lubbocks.

JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3791

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[7 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 26
Summary:

Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6538

From:
J. Knightly Ince
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1857–61?]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 20 (EH 88206072)
Summary:

Translates some German terms describing colour of horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000191

From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
11 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/37, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000192

From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society
Date:
16 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/39, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000194

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Richardson
Date:
15 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/40, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000195

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
21 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/41, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000196

From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
23 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/42, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000197

From:
William Sharpey
To:
North West America, led by John Palliser.
Date:
c.1857
Source of text:
MM/4/43, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000869

From:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
To:
Lord Wrottesley
Date:
10 December 1857
Source of text:
MM/14/104, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000879

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
8 October 1857
Source of text:
MM/14/144, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001418

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
11 August 1857
Source of text:
MM/19/15, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001468

From:
William Sharpey
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
4 October 1857
Source of text:
MM/19/65, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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