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FL-0385

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late 1856 to early 1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-1813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[1856–7]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4677u

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1856 or after
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4700u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Martin
Date:
Before 1856
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-605

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 205
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-625

From:
S. P. Woodward
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 360
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel1158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:

Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1936

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1856 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.13
Summary:

A note indicating JH's willingness to say a few words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2538

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.448 (C: RS:HS 23.185)
Summary:

Discusses AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. Wishes to have the completed work sent to him and sends congratulations on its completion. JH's health is improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1170

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1856?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.134, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP388

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Sims (née Wallace), Frances ("Fanny") or Sims, Thomas
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/64
Summary:

Transmission and payment for Home News; (Sims's) advertisements for photographic portraits on enamel opal glass and paper; insects and box of heavy clothes sent home; plan to visit California; funny Chinese pictures.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4281

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1856?
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1856). On the bamboo and durian of Borneo. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany : 8 (8): 225-230
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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