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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Martin
Date:
Before 1856
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late 1856 to early 1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[1856–7]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 205
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
S. P. Woodward
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 360
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1856 or after
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.448 (C: RS:HS 23.185)
Summary:
Discusses AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. Wishes to have the completed work sent to him and sends congratulations on its completion. JH's health is improving.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:
Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1856 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.13
Summary:
A note indicating JH's willingness to say a few words.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1856?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.134, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1856?
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1856). On the bamboo and durian of Borneo. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany : 8 (8): 225-230
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Sims (née Wallace), Frances ("Fanny") or Sims, Thomas
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/64
Summary:
Transmission and payment for Home News; (Sims's) advertisements for photographic portraits on enamel opal glass and paper; insects and box of heavy clothes sent home; plan to visit California; funny Chinese pictures.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
C. G. B. Daubeny
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 133
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
2 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.121)
Summary:
Thanks JMH for book of poems.
Recalls early days together. He cannot visit due to health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Davy
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 61, 1991)
Summary:
Delighted to hear that JD’s research is continuing. CD has heard that JD’s paper will at last be published. He is flattered by the form [as a letter addressed to CD] of communication. [See 1651a and 1819a, published in Phil. Trans. R. S. 146 (1856): 21–9 and Proc. R. S. London 8 (1856–7): 27–33.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 86)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his help and reports on progress in "the Cock and Hen line of business". Has written to every quarter of the world for skins of poultry and pigeons.
As for seeds, Hooker and Bentham obstinately refuse to believe they can live even a few years in the ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A106–A107
Summary:
Thanks for JSH’s letter, which has been of real use.
Complains of the trouble caused by reports to Government required of Benefit Clubs.
Interested in case of Canada geese with seed in crop, because means of distribution is now a great hobby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
4th January-1856
Source of text:
MS RR/3/157, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
4 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.144)
Summary:
The information correspondent hopes to get from M.-J.-P. Flourens will be valuable.
CD is keeping all varieties of pigeons, poultry, ducks, etc. for his work on variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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