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DCP-LETT-1608

From:
James R. Garrett
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
1 Dec 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 232
Summary:

Discusses the transport of seeds by birds. William Thompson received letters on this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport of seeds by birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13440

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Edward Wolstenholme Ward]
Date:
[1854-12 to 1855-4]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0674; Reel 1089
Summary:

Forwards copies of Treasury minutes and duplicate original authorizing Sydney branch mint to begin circulating Australian sovereigns and half sovereigns. Please advise JH of dies needed for 1856. [JH annotation to printer concerning arrangements of documents.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4271

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
[December?] 1854
Source of text:
[Wallace, A. R.]. (1855). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 1854, Sarawak, Borneo]. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art : 2003 : 366
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1609

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 158
Summary:

JDH’s "grand speech" on receiving the Royal Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1166

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
3 December 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library RGO6(468)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1015

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Peter Riess
Date:
3rd Dec. 1854
Source of text:
Slg Darmstaedter 1855 Tyndall Be. 1–58, 46–7, SSB
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel618

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.10
Summary:

Discusses rumors about the war on the continent, news of some visits JH had, and JH's dream life.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2923

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 December 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/356, f.149-50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1610F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Saba Smith; Saba Holland
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011)
Summary:

Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 159
Summary:

Is Bentham’s list of aberrant genera biased by exclusion of genera with many species?

JDH’s belief that Aquilegia varieties are one species is consistent with their great interfertility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1016

From:
John Tyndall
To:
James Coxe
Date:
4th Dec. 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/267, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1611

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 388–90
Summary:

Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.

Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1292

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Knights
Date:
6 December 1854
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1017

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday | Dec. 8th. 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/377, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2924

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
8 December 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.160
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel617

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Louisa Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.9
Summary:

Tells his daughter about a formal occasion for weighing gold in the presence of various officials and guilds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1019

From:
Arthur Trevelyan
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 Dec. 54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/5/1774, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7870

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.74
Summary:

Testing recent work on equations analogous to P. S. Laplace's but of higher order. Solution so simple that HW expects to find it published elsewhere. Corrects error in previous letter regarding generality of arbitrary constants.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1018

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec 10th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/209; MS JT/1/T/HTYP/378, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2925

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 December 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.161-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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