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Herschel6552

From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.295
Summary:

Sending mathematical papers of his friend for JH. Is on the point of going soldiering again. Would welcome position of tutor if she hears of one going vacant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2657

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 312
Summary:

Thanks EC for help in finding French translator [for Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3715

From:
John James Waterston
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 January 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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KEMP52

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 Jan [1860-4]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/32)
Summary:

Encloses a copy of his lecture on the geological history of the south east of Scotland/

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

DCP-LETT-2656

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Gives the results of crossing experiments; some interesting and curious facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102)
Summary:

Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.

Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
21 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.193)
Summary:

Discusses P. T. A. Talandier as possible translator [of Origin].

Comments on reception of book in North America and opposition of Louis Agassiz.

Asks about reaction of Henri Milne-Edwards.

QdeB’s lectures on anthropology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 37
Summary:

Very pleased with Asa Gray’s letter to JDH [see 2638], which is "rich on Agassiz".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2663

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5
Summary:

American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2664A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Henry Meade
Date:
23 Jan [1860?]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (SC MS 1975/2/1)
Summary:

Asks RHM to clarify his statement in Annals of Natural History, vol. 15, p. 39, about variation in the maxillae of Phalangiidae and in true spiders, and to provide information on the variation in maxillae of spiders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3716

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Aspasia Paola A. Lega Fletcher
Date:
23 January 1860
Source of text:
University of Leeds Library, Brotherton Collection, miscellaneous letters (Lega-Fletcher autographs)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2664

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.62–63)
Summary:

Has agreed to permit P. T. A. Talandier to translate the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1676

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mrs Buxton
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13c/1184, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3718

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
25 January 1860
Source of text:
BL Burdett-Coutts papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3717

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Austen Henry Layard
Date:
25 January 1860
Source of text:
Kurt Wolfgang Vincentz
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[25 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67)
Summary:

CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.

P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-01-26b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
26 January 1860
Source of text:
O60/813, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-60-01-26

From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1860
Source of text:
MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 2/1, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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HENSLOW-291

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
26 January 1860
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3029
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-290

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
26 January 1860
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.206: 75 (1-2)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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