From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13?-7-1855?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.112, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14
Source of text:
MS JT/3/891, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
14 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A40–A41, A57
Summary:
Sends a list of 22 plants that grow at Hitcham and in the Azores and are, according to H. C. Watson, least likely to have been imported [by man]. Will pay the little girls of Hitcham liberally to collect the seeds for his experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 141
Summary:
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 [July 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
Summary:
CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.
Thanks for Lepidoptera book.
Invites JL to dinner.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.78
Summary:
Visits Angelo Secchi at Rome observatory, where they are comparing information in Cape Results to their observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16th. July 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/890, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Justus Liebig
Date:
17 July 1855
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Liebigiana II.B. Faraday, M.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.113-114, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 142
Summary:
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 139
Summary:
Parcels sent to Down by coach may get lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 17
Summary:
Discusses how best to simulate the light at a particular point on the earth’s surface using coloured glass; considers sunlight as composed of three "principles", varying in proportion according to latitude, which affect germination, lignification, and floriation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
19 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 1 (EH 88206446)
Summary:
Congratulations to JL on finding musk-ox fossil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Melbourne University
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.32
Summary:
Would like an opinion on the question of attendance fees paid by students attending their lectures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
20 July 1855
Source of text:
Museum of History of Science, Oxford, MS Museum 63
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
20 July 1855
Source of text:
IC MS LP254
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 21 July 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 29, 21 July 1855, p. 487
Summary:
Reports on observing hive-bees visiting the leaves of vetch and bean and sucking the minute drops of nectar secreted by the glands on the underside of the stipulae. This phenomenon proves wrong those botanists who believe nectar to be a special secretion for the sole purpose of luring insects to visit flowers and thus to aid in their fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
21 July 1855
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 230)
Summary:
If AAG is no longer member of the Ray Society, CD would like to send copy of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 July [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (3)
Summary:
Geographical distribution. "Close" species. Hopes AG will write an essay on species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Bashford, Frederick1
- Bell, Thomas1
- Blyth, Edward1
- Custance, Myles1
- Darwin, C. R.23
- Faraday, Michael7
- Gregory, Augustus1
- Hawker, Charles1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, John3
- Hind, John R.1
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Horner, Leonard1
- Hunt, Robert2
- Hunt, T. C.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Melbourne University1
- Moore, John1
- Moseley, Henry4
- Mueller, Ferdinand von5
- Phillips, John1
- Playfair, Lyon1
- Pritchard, Charles1
- Rive, Arthur-Auguste De La1
- Robinson, Thomas Romney1
- Spence, William1
- Suft, Robert Francis1
- Tyndall, John16
- Watson, H. C.1
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