From:
Edgar Leopold Layard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 185–6
Summary:
Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sep. 1/56
Source of text:
MS JT/1/4/1345-6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Lord Belper
Date:
1st September 1856
Source of text:
British Library R.P.4738 (vii) 945c
Summary:
Makes arrangements for a visit to see potential archaeological sites in Derby area discussed by Belper in previous letter: potential Roman remains on the banks of the River Derwent opposite Little Chester; a barrow in Tugford that looks to be unopened. JSH states samian ware may be indicative of a Roman burial ground.
JSH also discusses son's curacy at Hitcham, local responsibilities including horticultural shows and recent ill health.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
4 September 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/13, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 9 (EH 88206458)
Summary:
Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Lord Belper
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 September 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 23
Summary:
Makes arrangements for a visit to see potential archaeological sites in Derby area discussed by Belper in previous letter: potential Roman remains on the banks of the River Derwent opposite Little Chester; a barrow in Tugford that looks to be unopened. Asks JSH to come early as barrow at Tugford is on a property up for auction.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[6 September 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.220
Summary:
In response to JH's letter to John Tyndall, explains views on the mechanical nature of geological phenomenon of slaty cleavage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Sharpey
To:
William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
6 September 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/98, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38
Summary:
Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.
Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 176
Summary:
Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].
CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Seed-salting.
Pigeons.
Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Varenne Reed
Date:
8 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/1)
Summary:
George is not so low at school as CD anticipated. He keeps at the top of his class, thanks to GVR’s labours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
9 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138)
Summary:
On JAHdeB’s discovery of Cretaceous Chthamalus. Cites his own acceptance of negative evidence about Chthamali in Fossil Lepadidae.
Comments on JAHdeB’s cirripede drawings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.300
Summary:
Visited Liverpool for inspection of School Frigate. Observed Triton. C. P. Smyth will install large telescope at Alta Vista; WS sends excerpt from son's letter. C. P. Smyth also works on spectral line observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.288
Summary:
Has fallen from a ladder in his library and dislocated his shoulder, which accounts for the form of his letter. Has he any recollections of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 261
Summary:
Reports on the naturalised animal life of Ascension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
11 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:
Requests observations on pigeons.
Knew LE’s son [Thomas] and deplores his fate [accidental death in 1846].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 September 1856
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4060-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11th Sep. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/12/4060-6; 5:3186, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Clifton Sorby
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.179
Summary:
Thanks HS for response to and explains further JH's letter to John Tyndall regarding explanation of origin of geological slaty cleavage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
- Belper, Lord2
- Bouton, Louis1
- Bowerbank, James Scott2
- Dana, J. D.1
- Darwin, C. R.13
- Darwin, Emma1
- De Morgan, Augustus2
- Faraday, Michael2
- Farrer, Thomas Henry2
- Gray, Asa1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, John3
- Layard, E. L.1
- Liebig, Justus1
- Longman, William1
- Matteucci, Carlo1
- Robillard, Victor de1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Schoenbein, Christian Friedrich1
- Sharpey, William2
- Smyth, William Henry1
- Sorby, Henry Clifton2
- Spence, William2
- Tyndall, John2
- Wallace (née Greenell), Mary Ann1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wallace, John1
- Wallace, Peter1
- de la Rive, Auguste1
- FEWER