From:
John Pringle Nichol
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15th June 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/N/11, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/640; MS JT/1/HTYP/500-1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.48
Summary:
Requesting JH's interest in the work of Oscar Capocci.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Arthur Swain Howard Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1857]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (92)
Summary:
Sends barometer readings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
17 June 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.156, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 June [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9a)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s remarks on disjoined species. CD’s notions are based on belief that disjoined species have suffered much extinction, which is the common cause of small genera and disjoined ranges.
Discusses out-crossing in plants.
Has failed to meet with a detailed account of regular and normal impregnation in the bud. Podostemon, Subularia, and underwater Leguminosae are the strongest cases against him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[18 June 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Is glad WBT is investigating "the tail question"; hopes he will work out "down & colour point". Is much interested in runts, which seem to vary more than other breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christian F. Schönbein
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857[?]-6-20
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.366
Summary:
Print of [Leonhard] Euler's portrait has been made. Copy being sent to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
23 June [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD anxious to examine rumpless chick 24 hours before hatching.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.245
Summary:
Glad JH is reviewing advancement of science by R.S.L. members. Disappointed that little was accomplished in certain areas where more was expected.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 205
Summary:
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Christian Gerling
Date:
25th June 1857
Source of text:
Mbg 319:739, UB
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
K. B. Martin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1857]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (95)
Summary:
Sends data from Harbour Office; discusses observation of the tides.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 [June 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Needs only one nearly-hatched chick.
Has all published numbers of Poultry book [1856–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
26 [June 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147)
Summary:
Ill.
Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.
His work on variation progresses.
Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] June 1857
Source of text:
DAR 100: 115
Summary:
Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.
Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mary or Emily Drummond
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/7/464-5; MS JT/2/13c/943-4, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/40, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Auguste de la Rive
Date:
30th June 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/370; MS JT/1/TYP/1/350, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project