Text Online
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 June 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 June [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (2)
Summary:
Suggests AG append ranges to the species in the new edition of his Manual.
Is interested in comparing the flora of U. S. with that of Britain and wishes to know the proportions to the whole of the great leading families and the numbers of species within genera. Would welcome information on which species AG considers to be "close" in the U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1006, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 June 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 251
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
10 June 1855
Source of text:
MS Q424 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
10 June 1855
Source of text:
P55/7560, unit 262, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 136
Summary:
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Asks whether THH will attend Council of Royal Society and speak for him on Joachim Barrande and J. D. Dana.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 11 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/47, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
11 June [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 93)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for specimens and his great help to CD in his work on variations in young and adult ducks and poultry. Has found feet of tame adult ducks weigh twice as much as those of wild ones.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 June 1855
Source of text:
MS Q429 outward letter copy book, pp. 62-4, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
12 June [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/43)
Summary:
Thanks for approval of seed-soaking experiments in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Does sea-water kill seeds?", 26 May 1855; Collected papers 1: 255–8]. They seem not to have convinced Hooker of consequences for geographical distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
12 June 1855
Source of text:
A251 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 June 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
James Emerson Tennent
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 June 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 June 1855
Source of text:
No. 494, unit 2, p. 37, VPRS 3150 outward letter book to miscellaneous and Assay Master, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Emerson Tennent
Date:
13 June 1855
Source of text:
Y. Watanabe
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 137
Summary:
Thanks for Hedysarum.
Pleasure in identifying field plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 June 1855
Source of text:
MS Q429 outward letter copy book, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
16 June 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Author
- Babington, C. C.1
- Darwin, C. R.12
- Faraday, Michael4
- Gray, Asa1
- Gregory, Augustus2
- Henslow, J. S.2
- Herbert, Jacob1
- Herschel, John4
- Hirst, Thomas Archer1
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Jenyns, Leonard1
- Lyell, Charles2
- Moore, John2
- Morris, M. H.1
- Moseley, Henry1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von11
- Murchison, R. I.1
- Phillipps, Thomas1
- Phillips, John1
- Prestwich, Joseph1
- Riess, Peter1
- Rive, Arthur-Auguste De La1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Salter, T. B.1
- Spence, William1
- Tennent, James Emerson1
- Thomson, William1
- Tyndale, Hector1
- Tyndall, John4
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
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