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DCP-LETT-1727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
22 July [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Mentions RH’s book on light [Researches on light in its chemical relations, 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments on plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1728

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 [July 1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 95)
Summary:

Describes his method of putting young poultry to death.

Asks questions arising from WDF’s reply about crossed mongrels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
23 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A42
Summary:

Invites JSH to dine at CD’s brother’s house in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1730

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 18
Summary:

Informs CD which colours of glass accelerate germination, lignification, and floriation; advises CD on obtaining such glass and offers his help in any experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143a
Summary:

Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.

CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A43–A44
Summary:

Delighted JSH can dine. Has invited Hooker.

Thanks him for Lychnis seed.

Asks for umbel of wild celery. Wants to ascertain whether wild or tame plants produce most seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1733

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 July [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 65)
Summary:

Has received the duck and bantam.

Anxious to get as many facts as possible on crossbreeding of dogs.

Reports on seeds that have germinated after 100 days immersion [in salt water].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1734

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
31 July [1855]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (28 September 2004)
Summary:

Mentions experiments on plants involving coloured glass. Encloses correspondence from glass maker and asks advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 [July 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
Summary:

CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.

Thanks for Lepidoptera book.

Invites JL to dinner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3000

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4029-33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3001

From:
Myles Custance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 July 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3002

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
6 July 1855
Source of text:
RS MS RR 3.154
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3003

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the Editor of the Times
Date:
7 July 1855
Source of text:
Times, 9 July 1855, p.8, col. f
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3004

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4034-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3005

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cornelia Augusta Hewett Crosse
Date:
12 July 1855
Source of text:
Gladstone (1874), 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3006

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Justus Liebig
Date:
17 July 1855
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Liebigiana II.B. Faraday, M.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3007

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3008

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
20 July 1855
Source of text:
IC MS LP254
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3009

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
20 July 1855
Source of text:
Museum of History of Science, Oxford, MS Museum 63
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3010

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I058
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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