Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 250–1)
Summary:
Thanks for the very detailed information sent by EWVH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 164
Summary:
CD (and Emma) had a good laugh over JDH’s mortified response to a misinterpretation (in print) concerning his position on multiple creation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 1st 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/225, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.87
Summary:
Reflects on relations between differences of same power of zero. Reviews procedure developed for determining terms and law of coefficients. JH's critique expanded role for these, but HW disagrees with JH's latest comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 June 1856
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG3/l/3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS AD/03/D/04/03; 5:3154, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
2nd June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/623, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Elizabeth Reid
Date:
2 June 1856
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
2 June 1856
Source of text:
AS MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1856]
Source of text:
JHS 1.66
Summary:
Complaining about the recent wet weather.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 June 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 22, p.2860
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.231
Summary:
Has procured an actinometer and would like details of the scale.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
3 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.129)
Summary:
Comments on SPW’s book [Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)].
Mentions questions he has for SPW [see 1890].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.283
Summary:
Would he answer some of his queries when he has leisure? Queries on the law of beats for unison sounds. Met JH's daughter on Monday, who gave a fair account of JH and his recent work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.130)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for specimen of Dorking cock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 June 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.216.117
Summary:
Some more information on the use of the actinometer [see JH's 1856-4-24 & GA's 1856-6-3]; some news of JH's wife, Margaret.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Reports safe arrival of rabbit sent by WBT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 303
Summary:
SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 403
Summary:
Note on cases of representative shells that are not clearly either varieties or species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Airy, George Biddell2
- Blake, Henry Wollaston1
- Bouvier, Hannah M.1
- Crosse, Cornelia Augusta Hewett1
- Cumming, Joseph George1
- Darwin, C. R.33
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- De Morgan, Augustus3
- Despretz, Cesar1
- Dumas, Jean-Baptiste-André1
- Everest, Robert1
- Faraday, Michael16
- Farrer, Thomas Henry1
- Fox, W. D.3
- Galbraith, Joseph Allen1
- Harcourt, E. W. V.3
- Harris, William Snow1
- Henslow, J. S.6
- Herschel, Alexander Stewart1
- Herschel, John13
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie1
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie Herschel and Isabella1
- Hill, Rowland1
- Hirst, Thomas Archer9
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Hooker, William1
- Jewsbury, Geraldine1
- Layard, E. L.1
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)1
- Lubbock, John2
- Lyell, Charles4
- Magnus, Gustav1
- Major, John Richardson1
- Mantell, W. B. D.1
- Moore, Julia2
- Mueller, Ferdinand von1
- Pollock, Juliet1
- Powell, Baden1
- Reid, Elizabeth1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Sedgwick, Adam1
- Sopwith, Thomas1
- Spence, William1
- Stainton, H. T.1
- Staunton, George Thomas1
- Stokes, George Gabriel3
- Strzelecki, Paul Edmund de1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.2
- Tyndall, John20
- Warburton, Henry1
- Watson, H. C.4
- Welbank, Robert2
- Wollaston, T. V.3
- Woodward, S. P.4
- du Bois Reymond, Emil1
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