From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
17th Jan.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/866, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
17 January 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/11, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
18th Jan. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/616, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Prince of Wales
Date:
18 January 1856
Source of text:
RAW T1/102
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomson
Date:
18 January 1856
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7342, F35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
18 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122)
Summary:
Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
19 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1491)
Summary:
Is obliged for JEG’s assistance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Comte de Persigny
Date:
19 January 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
19 January 1856
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Napoleon III
Date:
19 January 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Gulliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Gulliver, George 1846)
Summary:
Discusses the similarity in size, shape, and structure of the blood corpuscles of the Aves. Notes differences between the corpuscles of the domestic dog and some wild species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 232
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
22 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A108–A109
Summary:
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A122–A125
Summary:
Believes the goldfish originates from a wild, gold variety of Chinese carp.
Gallinaceous birds.
Crested turkeys.
EB divides the gallinaceous birds into five families on anatomical distinctions.
Wild dog species of India and Asia; ranges of some species, specific identity of others.
The fauna of the Seychelles.
Breeding of fowls in India and Africa.
Occurrence of turkeys in Africa.
Refers to some of his own papers giving fuller details of points raised previously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
23 Jan 1856
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123)
Summary:
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Friedrich Miquel
Date:
25 January 1856
Source of text:
Universiteitsbibliotheek, Hs 1873, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
William Colchester
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 98(i) and(ii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
26th Jan 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1552, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.124)
Summary:
Suggests that J. E. Gray and/or G. R. Waterhouse might be willing to set her butterfly collection. Recommends that her children should collect their own butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
28 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:
Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project