From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-3-1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Mar] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 63–8
Summary:
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[2 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.71
Summary:
The committee dealing with applying to the government for aid should meet soon, and so JH wants some questions answered from one of the authors of Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
3 March 1846
Source of text:
BL add MS 32441, f.416
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4 March 1846
Source of text:
RGO 6/463, f.334
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel Thomas Davenport
Date:
4 March 1846
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
5 March 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS 375
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 March 1846
Source of text:
RGO 6/463, f.335
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
9 March 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Dickinson
To:
Faraday and Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
c. 9 March 1846 and 10 March 1846
Source of text:
UB MS NS IA 181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[10 March 1846]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen523/4/31
Summary:
Has unsuccessfully tried to get in touch with [Hugh] Falconer and Falconer's publisher about obtaining further government aid for Falconer's research. Hopes RM, JH's fellow B.A.A.S. committee member, can help.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 62–3
Summary:
Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.
"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.
Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.409
Summary:
Thanks for his congratulations. Gives a resume of the events leading up to the knighthood. Saw Hugh Falconer yesterday. Sister-in-law has just died.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56
Summary:
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.72 & 73
Summary:
As HF is likely to be immediately ordered back to India, he is in no position to prepare himself to appear before the government seeking funds to publish Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Encloses a brief statement to the above effect to be read to the B.A.A.S. committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Wyndham Phillips
Date:
14 March 1846
Source of text:
NYPL, Lee Kohns Memorial Collection, M. Faraday
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.329
Summary:
Has not been able to secure any angles of Gamma Virginis due to poor weather. Perplexed over the difference between J. H. Mädler and W. R. Dawes. George Bishop will be pleased to send any measures he may require.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
16 March 1846
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Peel
Date:
16 March 1846
Source of text:
BL add MS 40587, f.141
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
17 March 1846
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.188
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project