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From:
Henry Cole
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 March 1865
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 and 26 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 170: 50
Summary:
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
23 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.120)
Summary:
Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.
Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.
Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 174
Summary:
Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.
Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
August Petermann
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 March 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a letterpress copy of this letter see Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha. For a published version of the letter see Voigt (1996) p. 65-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.275
Summary:
Visitors Board will meet to discuss railway companies' proposal to remove Greenwich Observatory to another site. Includes copy of Warren de La Rue's letter to ES.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.231
Summary:
Regarding certain passages in JH's Cape Observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
25 March 1865
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Areschoug
Date:
25 March 1865
Source of text:
J. E. Areschoug brefsamling, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard von Seebach
Date:
25 March 1865
Source of text:
Bl. 192-197, Nr 5, Loc. 11, Dep. I, Herzogliches Staats-Ministerium, Thüringisches Staatsarchiv, Gotha, Germany
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 March 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 190
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.162
Summary:
Thanks for note explaining refusal to undertake another new subject, JS's mathematical paper. Updates on algebra books.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307)
Summary:
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 March 1865
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:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Deacon
Date:
26 March 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/2/6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[26 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.101
Summary:
On the physical structure of the sun's surface.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
26 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Malmö Museer (MM 031992)
Summary:
Thanks for fact about the buffalo diving.
Asks whether the animal was a Bos or a Bubalus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 65
Summary:
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
27 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3)
Summary:
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 9
Summary:
University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
