From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 138
Summary:
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454)
Summary:
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
[before 3 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138)
Summary:
Discusses shipment of skins of carrier pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has received nine skins from Walter Elliot of Madras; WBT may describe them if he wishes.
Expects some Persian fowls.
Can WBT inquire about the fertility of certain duck hybrids?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 165: 95
Summary:
Outlines the ranges of northern U. S. species common to Europe. Hopes to investigate the resemblances between the floras of the north-eastern U. S. and western Europe. Discusses routes by which alpine plants appear to have reached U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Brooke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 November 1856
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 6-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.323
Summary:
Thought that the book presented by JH had come from Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland); regrets the error.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2799, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 November 1856
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/71
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 7 novembre 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/340-2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Wilson
Date:
7 November 1856
Source of text:
LU
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.291
Summary:
Hopes his health is improving as his own is. Saw Henry Warburton last week. Gives one of his own theorems. Sends a lecture on the decimal coinage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Pridie
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8th Novr 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/258, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 105–10
Summary:
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[9 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.12
Summary:
Needs more time for reviewing Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-10-12].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
C. J. F. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
UB MS NS 427
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140)
Summary:
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Samuel Hannaford
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
A247, R. C. Gunn papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 296
Summary:
Greatly interested in CD’s experiments with seeds in salt water [see "Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Believes CD exaggerates the force of the objection, against migration, that seeds tend to sink.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Babington, C. C.1
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale1
- Bates, Henry Walter1
- Bell, Thomas1
- Bentham, George2
- Berthon, Peter Henry2
- Bosquet, J. A. H. de1
- Bouvier, Hannah M.1
- Brachet, Achille2
- Brooke, James1
- Bunbury, C. J. F.1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Clausius, Rudolf2
- Daniell, W. F.1
- Darwin, C. R.34
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, W. E.2
- De Morgan, Augustus3
- Dudgeon, T.1
- Faraday, Michael6
- Foster, Peter le Neve1
- Gray, Asa2
- Gunn, Ronald1
- Hannaford, Samuel1
- Henslow, J. S.5
- Herbert, George2
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Herschel, John15
- Higgins, John2
- Hirst, Thomas Archer2
- Hooker, Frances1
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Horner, Leonard1
- Huxley, Thomas Henry2
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)1
- Lubbock, John1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Magnus, Heinrich Gustav1
- Matteucci, Carlo1
- Murray, John (b)2
- Pole, William2
- Pridie, William1
- Schoenbein, Christian Friedrich1
- Sharpey, William2
- Sorby, Henry Clifton1
- Stokes, George Gabriel3
- Tegetmeier, W. B.3
- Temple, Frederick1
- Thompson, John1
- Tyndall, John13
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Watson, H. C.3
- Westwood, J. O.1
- Wilson, George1
- Wollaston, T. V.1
- de la Rive, Auguste2
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