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DCP-LETT-2028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Mar? 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459)
Summary:

JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1835

From:
John Morris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 246
Summary:

Informs CD on age of land, freshwater, and marine Mollusca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3192

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.128
Summary:

Describes proceedings of government aid distribution committee meeting. JH's letter was so well-received JH was elected committee member. Asks JH to write example-illustrated report of resolutions and to be committee's orator.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3098

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5704

From:
James Booth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.194
Summary:

Council of Society of Arts would like JH's support for their new scheme of examinations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3097

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 21, p.1226
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1836

From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 160: 174
Summary:

Reports on breeding experiments with various seeds: corn, aubergine, kidney beans, sugar-peas. Speculates that cause of changes in seed colour in sugar-peas may be mere variation rather than result of impregnation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1201

From:
Olivia M. Jones
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 7
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/131, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1646

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:

Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.

Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1202

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1856 March 8
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/28, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1838

From:
Thomas Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 283
Summary:

TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].

Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3099

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
8 March 1856
Source of text:
NLNZ MS Papers 83 (Mantell family) folder 275
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3100

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 March 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 21, p.1273
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1837

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125)
Summary:

Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.

Promises to publish on the species question.

Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1840

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
9 Mar 1856
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 255
Summary:

Thanks SC for his interesting account of the state of the colony. SC was wise to settle there where his sons have much better prospects.

Has finished his book on barnacles [1854]. Royal Medal awarded him chiefly for this work.

Asks SC whether he has observed any odd imported breeds of poultry, for his work on variation of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1203

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
9th. March, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/876, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel8919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[9 March 1856]
Source of text:
Journal of the Society of Arts, 4 (April 19, 1856), 342
Summary:

Declares his confidence in the certificates of proficiency about to be awarded by the Society of Arts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1204

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
10th March 1856
Source of text:
MS 6/694, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-431

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 354
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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WCP1701

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
10 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 7339/232
Summary:

Talks of administrative matters. Tells of some collection that left by the Water Lily Singapore on 5th March including, orang skins and skulls, ferns and insects bird and mammal skins, shells, reptiles and directs Stevens what should be done with these collections.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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