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FVM-59-03-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Powlett
Date:
11 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/474, unit 26, VPRS 6605 inward correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 7
Summary:

Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.

Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-03-11a

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 631, unit 4, p. 138, VPRS 1187 outward 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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FL-0289

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Tyndall1598

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 12th 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/220; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1363, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-603

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 203
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13854

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:

HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.

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DCP-LETT-2430

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 258)
Summary:

Thanks for THH’s examples of serially modified and homologous parts in Radiata. Cannot understand how he forgot such cases.

Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6438

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.206
Summary:

Is thinking of applying for the position of Observer at the Radcliffe Observatory and would like JH's support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0290

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 14 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 40
Summary:

Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.

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Herschel4853

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.240 (C: RGO 6.377.440)
Summary:

Wants information for the proposed visit to Auvergne. Regarding the motion of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1599

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of the Morning Post
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
Wednesday, March 16, 1859, Morning Post
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-59-03-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
15 March 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 111
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 8
Summary:

Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.

Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;

CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.

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DCP-LETT-2433

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 22
Summary:

Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-03-15a

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/747, unit 3, p. 16, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11111

From:
Alexander K. Johnston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.448
Summary:

His letter and accompanying packet arrived for which accept his best thanks for the valuable contribution to the literature of physical geography. Is gratified by JH's commendation of his own Physical Atlas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1600

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/339, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2434

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477)
Summary:

Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].

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