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FVM-56-01-04

From:
William Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 January 1856
Source of text:
RB MSS M2, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 67-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel7043

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.280
Summary:

Wishing him well for the new year. Hears JH has visited the East India College. Sends a theorem. H. P. Brougham (Baron Brougham and Vaux) amuses himself by finding the laws of central force for curves. Has been finding information on a nephew of Isaac Newton. George Stanhope (6th Earl of Chesterfield) and T. A. W. Parker (9th Earl of Macclesfield) were pupils of Abraham De Moivre.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3067

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
7 January 1856
Source of text:
RS MS RR 3.158
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3068

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
7 January 1856
Source of text:
GS MS M/F4/5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1819

From:
Charles Crump
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[before 8 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A114–A116
Summary:

Reports upon a breed of wild cattle found in southern India. The herd is reputedly descended from a wild, red bull that mated with tame cows.

[This memorandum was forwarded to CD enclosed with 1817.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1817

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21
Summary:

Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].

Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.

Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.

Wild canary and finch hybrids.

Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.

Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.

Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.

Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.

Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].

Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1819A

From:
John Davy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1856
Source of text:
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 8 (1856–7): 27–33
Summary:

On the vitality of the ova of the Salmonidae at different stages of development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14150

From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0376; Reel 1087
Summary:

TS will be chairman of Decimal Coinage commission. Do majority of bankers queried by JH favor this decimal system? Death of William Whewell's wife, Cordelia, sister-in-law of TS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-M56-01-12

From:
William Hooker
To:
J. Ball
Date:
12 January 1856
Source of text:
MS Q426 inward correspondence, A. C. Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-1820A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
14 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1490, 1488)
Summary:

Requests that JEG secure the assistance of Samuel Birch in regard to information about varieties of domesticated animals and plants in China. Encloses memorandum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1182

From:
James Bevington
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14th. January 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/152, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[14 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 6 (EH 88206455)
Summary:

Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3070

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
14 January 1856
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3069

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Sterry Hunt
Date:
c.14 January 1856
Source of text:
BUL Newell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1820

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

Is attempting to get skins of poultry from all quarters of the world. Wants to inspect poultry collections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13812

From:
Charles De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 January [1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0162; Reel 1087
Summary:

Encourages JH to contest Cambridge University seat in Parliament, following death of Henry Goulburn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1183

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
15th Jan. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/865, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3073

From:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 January 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3072

From:
Prince Alfred
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 January 1856
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3071

From:
Prince of Wales
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 January 1856
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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