From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 181: 33
Summary:
Evidence relevant to E. Forbes’s land-bridge theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[after 10 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 52
Summary:
Do the plants that are common to Europe and North America nearly all live north of the Arctic Circle? CD bases his question on HCW’s "capital" comparison between relations of Europe to North America and Europe to E. Asia if the intervening land had been submerged. CD has been led to speculate that in the mid-Pliocene the organisms now living in middle Europe and northern U. S. lived within the Arctic Circle. Subsequent movements of this flora with advance and retreat of glaciers would explain present distribution better than Forbes’s vast submergences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
12 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 252–4)
Summary:
Would like to compare the length of the wings of non-migratory and migratory swallows.
Wonders if EWVH could show him skins of Columba livia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 [June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 3 (EH 88206450)
Summary:
Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Baden Powell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.48
Summary:
Regrets letter read the night before at the R.A.S. of JH's wish to resign and hopes JH's health allows him to come occasionally and be a nominal member. Discusses Piazzi Smyth's preparations for voyage to Teneriffe.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 June [1856]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 98)
Summary:
Does not intend to work systematically on cats. Their origin is in doubt and they have been crossed too many ways.
It would be valuable to know whether half-bred ducks are fertile inter se or with a third breed. Is investigating this with pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Thomas Staunton
Date:
14 June 1856
Source of text:
Staunton (1857), 54
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Cesar Despretz
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/125, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
15th. June, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/626, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel and Isabella Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0545; Reel 1053
Summary:
Celebration planned for arrival of MH and IH. Son John is home from Addiscombe. JH's health. News of Hawkhurst. Regards to Mr. and Mrs. Greig.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
16 June 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Hannah M. Bouvier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.90
Summary:
Sending him a copy of her Familiar Astronomy and inviting his comments on this work. His works are well known in America.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A110–11
Summary:
Sends a cultivated specimen of Myosotis (first generation) grown from seed sent by JSH. Asks for a tuft of flower.
Hopes JSH will publish a book on teaching botany, because he has no idea how to begin with his children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
16 [June 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.131)
Summary:
Condemns theory of Edward Forbes and others that many islands were formerly connected to South America by now submerged continents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 301 & 301(ii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17–18 [June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 170
Summary:
Comments on Huxley–Falconer dispute [see "On the method of palaeontology", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 18 (1856): 43–54].
Wollaston’s On the variation of species [1856].
Has exploded to Lyell against the extension of continents.
Plants common to Europe and NW. America as result of temperate climate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
17th. June, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/459-60, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 146: 475
Summary:
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
17 June 1856
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7656, F21
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Everest
Date:
18 June [1856]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:
Seeks to verify whether bulldogs have degenerated in India [see Variation 1: 37–8].
CD has "sometimes gone so far as to doubt whether climate has any influence even on colour".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- 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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