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DCP-LETT-1890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 72: 59–61
Summary:

Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
5 June [1856-9]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Thanks WBDM for the particulars on the iceberg.

Will look up the barnacle specimen to which he refers at British Museum.

WBDM should remember when he returns to New Zealand that aboriginal rat and frog are "great desiderata in Natural History".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1891

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 181: 32
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.

Variability of agrarian weeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-445

From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 106
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-444

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 285
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel672

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1856]
Source of text:
JHS 1.64
Summary:

Lectures AH on the 'examination paper of life' after AH had complained that he was disgusted by a college examination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
Date:
6 June [1856]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 1999/1/30)
Summary:

Comments on TVW’s book [On the variation of species with special reference to the Insecta (1856)].

On TVW’s Unitarianism. Predicts TVW will fall further away from Christianity.

[Letter sent by TVW to Charles Lyell.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1237

From:
Geraldine Jewsbury
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June seventh 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1236

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
7th June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/624, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3155

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
Date:
7 June 1856
Source of text:
Kurt Wolfgang Vincentz
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1150

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[1856-6-7 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.7
Summary:

Wants to make a new musical instrument on the principle of resonance; JH also suggests some improvements in the construction of the organ.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7048

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.284
Summary:

Has long held the view that a pipe underneath the strings of a piano would increase the resonance. Had not conceived such an instrument as JH suggested. Why are 3rds and 6ths more agreeable to the ear than 4ths and 5ths?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 [June 1856]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10)
Summary:

The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.

Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1894

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
8 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.143)
Summary:

Admires ELL’s plan to visit Madagascar.

Asks about fertility of hybrid cats, crosses among dogs in Africa, and appearance of feral pigeons at Ascension. Doubts existence of N. African greyhound.

Asks for specimens of pigeons and ducks from the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452)
Summary:

Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.

Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1238

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
9th June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/625, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3156a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
9 June 1856
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3156

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cornelia Augusta Hewett Crosse
Date:
9 June 1856
Source of text:
Pierpont Morgan Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1239

From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday 9th. June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/2/470, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-446

From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 328
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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