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DCP-LETT-2192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Dec 1857
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Comments on agreement of their respective views on distribution.

Reference to differences on subsidence.

Reports on progress of his work and praises ARW’s investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2193

From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 197
Summary:

Replies to more queries about fowl hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2194

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 218
Summary:

Species with marked varieties.

Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.

Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.

Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

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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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

SOMERVILLE520

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
8 Dec 1857
Source of text:
122, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel11093

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Prescott Joule
Date:
[26 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.216
Summary:

Thanks JJ for the counterfeit coin he sent; JH comments on the possibility of oval coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12014

From:
Adalbert Adolf Mühry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.376
Summary:

Letter accompanying AM's book on climatology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12454

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.310
Summary:

Family news and comments on some of JH's writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4441

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[3 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.214
Summary:

Makes suggestion on freeing the Leviathan from its trapped position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8402

From:
Mary H. Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.287
Summary:

Preparing for wedding. Thanks JH for present. Happy that JH's daughter 'Lou' [Margaret Louisa Herschel?] will be bridesmaid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1059

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
19 December 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.145, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall1461

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Dec. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2226-30, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1462

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Dec 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4144; 5:3363, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1463

From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Dec. 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/486, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1464

From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday Eve.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2556, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1465

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/16; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1309, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1466

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Kennedy
Date:
16th Dec. 1857
Source of text:
, Alpine Club
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1467

From:
George Edmondson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12m0.16--1857
Source of text:
MS JT/5/14/-, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1468

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 16 57
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/612, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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