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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 199
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Frederic Martins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1er Mars 1860
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/51, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.245 (C: RGO 6.195.250)
Summary:
Passes on information on stars received from a Bengal pilot.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[1 March 1860]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:1144 (C: TCD 1493:1145)
Summary:
Apologizes for not returning sheets of Elements of Quaternions sooner, but was ill. Again cautions WH that method might be too advanced for elementary readers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24)
Summary:
Has been ill with pleurisy.
Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Lady Colvile
Date:
2nd March
Source of text:
Add MS 60634 ff. 119-135, BL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
2 March 1860
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 March 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.195.251
Summary:
Offers some possible explanation for what the unnamed observer saw [see GA's 1860-3-1].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 March 1860]
Source of text:
RGO 6.457.147
Summary:
Is arguing for the development of a British metrical system based on the length of the polar axis of the earth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Austen Henry Layard
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 March 1860
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 45
Summary:
CD’s list of fifteen converts. His opinions on opponents and supporters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bookseller.
Date:
4 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 1492)
Summary:
Orders J. B. Jukes’s Student’s manual of geology [1857] and Macmillan’s Magazine (Dec 1859).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 Mar 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 55
Summary:
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109)
Summary:
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood
Date:
5 Mar [1860–9]
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.488
Summary:
Asks JH to become a subscriber to a work that HS is bringing out. Lists prominent persons who have already done so.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 28
Summary:
Responds to JL’s comments on effect of natural selection on grouse or reindeer.
Asks if dirt adheres to feet of water-birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Josiah Latimer Clark
Date:
5 March 1860
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Austin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1860
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1860 (309) XL, pp.1-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project