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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 August 1862
Source of text:
IC MS HP16.11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Smith
Date:
[6 August 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0386; Reel 1054 (Cdraft: RS:HS 25.15.19)
Summary:
Withdraws article that JH submitted to Cornhill Magazine because, as GS noted, it was meant for different class of readers. But asks for 250 copies to be printed for JH's private circulation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.224
Summary:
Sends Lady K. B. Kane's Dublin address. Describes former residence and neighborhood of Elizabeth Baily. EW's husband [Walpole] returned from Yorkshire Monday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 August 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[8 August 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
8 August 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 August 1862
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418301
Summary:
Much regrets that ARW cannot attend on Monday.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 August 1862
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B4-5
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 27
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 145-146]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
8 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)
Summary:
Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.358
Summary:
Returns JH's manuscript on algebra. Wishes parts of it had been published. Wrote a treatise on mechanics, which he submitted to the University when applying for his present position. Regarding J. L. F. Bertrand and their papers on series.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[9 August 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 August 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 61
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Eyre B. Powell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.184
Summary:
Thanks JH for copy of Cape Observations; says it will be useful to students of Madras College. Remarks on double star observations of his own confirmed in Outlines Astr. Wants to start a double star catalogue.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71)
Summary:
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.17; Reel 10
Summary:
Still searching for journal of WP's observations. Notes on micrometer used in measuring nebulae positions. WP's assistants are not qualified to make new measurements.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:
Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
11 August 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
'My dear Sir'
Date:
11 August 1862
Source of text:
MM/22/75, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society