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FVM-56-06-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
18 June 1856
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 154.For an edited version of this letter see B56.11.01. The changes in the printed version noted here are those that alter sense, or the spelling of plant and place names. Uncertain transcriptions follow the printed version
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1243

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 18th 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/226, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1244

From:
Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Juni 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/19, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1907

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 181: 34
Summary:

Conveys [? J. T. I. Boswell-]Syme’s opinion of variability of agrarian weeds and ranges of species common to U. S. and W. Europe. The Hispano-Hibernian connection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1245

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
21st. June, 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/628, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3160

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Richardson Major
Date:
21 June 1856
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1908

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 165
Summary:

CD sends reference for "Laburnum case", with comment on his own credulity.

Wants to quote JDH on plants endemic to NW. America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3161

From:
Robert Welbank
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 June 1856
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1909F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
24 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 255–7)
Summary:

Thanks EWVH for his offer but he is not likely to go to London soon to visit John Leadbeater, the bird dealer; he could take a rock pigeon for comparison, but other skins he would have compare at the British Museum.

Would be obliged if EWVH could investigate domestic species in Egypt, especially a type of dog depicted in ancient monuments; and he is particularly interested in tumbler pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1246

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julia Moore
Date:
24th June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1071, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3161a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Wollaston Blake
Date:
24 June 1856
Source of text:
WTDC WLMS STANGER / 1 / 186.1
Summary:

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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3162

From:
Robert Welbank
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 June 1856
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1595

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[24 June 1856]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS8
Summary:

Comments on a proposed grant to publish T. R. Robinson's Armagh observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1909

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
24 June [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Now has 89 pigeons. The laughing pigeons are safe at Down. Can WBT spare a pair of Mr Gulliver’s runts?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1247

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
June 25 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/629, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1910

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.132)
Summary:

Criticises at length the concept of submerged continents attaching islands to the mainland in the recent period. Notes drastic alteration of geography required, the dissimilar species on opposite shores of continents, and differences between volcanic islands and mountains of mainland areas. Admits sea-bed subsidence, but not enough to engulf continents. Denies that theory can explain island flora and fauna.

Considers Edward Forbes’s idea a check on study of dissemination of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1911

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 June or 3 July] 1856
Source of text:
DAR 104: 197
Summary:

Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.

Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.

Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.

Ray Society should only do translations.

Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1248

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julia Moore
Date:
26th June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/3/866c, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel1383

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.31
Summary:

Writes to clarify his understanding of the word 'fluorescence.' Asks JH to review a paper on color-blindness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1249

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Emil du Bois Reymond
Date:
27th June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/400, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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