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DCP-LETT-1878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 May [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 174)
Summary:

Has written very strong notes to Lord Overstone and Sir J. W. Lubbock and hopes they will be of service to THH.

Acknowledges receipt of THH’s lecture [unidentified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
27 May [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5)
Summary:

Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."

Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1882

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

Wants good rabbit specimens. Will be in London on 21 June and can pick up some pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1883

From:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 100
Summary:

Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3133

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 May 1856
Source of text:
IC MS HP16.8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3134

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Justus Liebig
Date:
1 May 1856
Source of text:
UU EW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3135

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 May 1856
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG2/k/4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3136

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 May 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 22, p.2423
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3137

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 May 1856
Source of text:
BPRE MS Regg E 224/24, doc. 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3138

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
9 May 1856
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 8546/I/82
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3139

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 May 1856
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4047-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3140

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 May 1856
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p. 4140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3141

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
10 May 1856
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3142

From:
Sarah Faraday and Faraday
To:
Harriet Jane Moore
Date:
10 May 1856
Source of text:
LU
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3143

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 May 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 22, p.2512
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3144

From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 May 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3145

From:
Karl Wilhelm Knochenhauer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3146

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 May 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 22, p.2690
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3147

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Brooke
Date:
28 May 1856
Source of text:
BL add MS 42240, f.26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3148

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
29 May 1856
Source of text:
SAU MS JDF 1856/53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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