From:
Jules Duboscq
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 22 Aout
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/180, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
23 [Aug or Sept] 1855
Source of text:
DAR 93: A112–13
Summary:
Asks JSH to identify an umbellifer.
Describes his efforts to compare number of seeds of wild and cultivated plants.
Asks that more wild celery be collected and seeds counted. Seeks to verify whether "most typical form produces most seed" and whether cultivation lessens fertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1855
Source of text:
DAR 181: 29
Summary:
Close species in large and small genera.
Artificiality of botanical classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Sir B. Brodie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 August 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 36
Summary:
Writes positively about a report on schools written by JSH, particularly the benefits for children of learning by rote. Says he is unsurprised that JSH has some ‘bad folks’ among allotment scheme as this is human nature.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (10)
Summary:
"Close" species in large and small genera.
Alphonse de Candolle on geographical distribution [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)].
Species variability.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Elie de Beaumont
Date:
[24 August 1855]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:
Expresses elation and gratitude at JH's election as a foreign associate of the Académie des sciences. Is especially honored because JH has been elected in succession to C. F. Gauss.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Rawson Birks
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 August 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
William Wilson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
25 August 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 357
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[26 Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 53
Summary:
On geographical distribution of plants. Plant systematics and natural classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
27 August 1855
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 August 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4037-41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27th Aug. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4037-41; 4:3020, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Phinn
Date:
27 August 1855
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 365
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[31 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.158
Summary:
Is trying to arrange for a group of those interested to examine a glass disc.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
31 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for WBT’s offer to supply carcasses of good poultry breeds. Encloses list [missing] of birds in which he is interested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Airy, George Biddell3
- Barlow, John1
- Birks, Thomas Rawson1
- Blyth, Edward2
- Brodie, B.3
- Cattell, John1
- Darwin, C. R.9
- De Morgan, Augustus1
- Duboscq, Jules1
- Faraday, Michael3
- Fitton, William Henry1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, John3
- Matteucci, Carlo1
- Moore, John1
- Morgan, Augustus De1
- Moseley, Henry4
- Mueller, Ferdinand von1
- Nelson, John Henry2
- Owen, Richard1
- Riess, Peter Theophilus1
- Smart, Benjamin Humphrey2
- Smith, Charles Roach1
- Tyndall, John4
- Wartmann, Elie2
- Watson, H. C.3
- Wilson, William1
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