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DCP-LETT-2324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
1 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157)
Summary:

Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.

Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2326

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 194
Summary:

Cannot explain impurity of his alleged pure lines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2327

From:
Willem Hendrik de Vriese
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 180: 27
Summary:

Answers CD’s query about distribution of European perennials in the highlands of Java.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 29
Summary:

Discusses domestic affairs.

Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].

Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
28 Sept 1858
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 41)
Summary:

Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s latest part of memoir on Foraminifera be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 149 (1859): 1–41].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4891

From:
James Burningham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Sept 1858?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 186 (fragile)
Summary:

Reports his observations on an ants’ nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3512

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 and 3 September 1858
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4149
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3513

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the editor of the Times
Date:
2 September 1858
Source of text:
Times, 3 September 1858, p.10, col. e
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3514

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 September 1858
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4087-90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3515

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
13 September 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/87
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3516

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Pinney
Date:
15 September 1858
Source of text:
Burndy Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3517

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Phillips
Date:
23 September 1858
Source of text:
UMO MS John Phillips Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3518

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 September 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-510

From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 September 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 268
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-511

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 September 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 314
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel11262

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[15 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.153-4 (C: RS:HS 23.239)
Summary:

Is dismayed to find in the new edition of his own Outlines Astr. that he has attributed the discovery of Hyperion to W. R. Dawes without crediting WL; will have this corrected in a future edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11263

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.155
Summary:

Do not let the error in Outlines Astr. disturb him; he quite understands. The 4-foot telescope proceeds. The speculum has been polished and awaits trial. If JH is attending the B.A.A.S. meeting hopes he will visit Lassell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 September 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0020; Reel 1054
Summary:

Humphrey Lloyd wants R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. committees on magnetism to meet together at B.A.A.S. meeting in Leeds. JH suggests inviting Edward Sabine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12634

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[6 September 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0054; Reel 1054
Summary:

Received another notice from General Reversionary & Trust Society regarding H. J. Hollier. JH asks again to be replaced as trustee for Mary Anne Hollier trust.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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