From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
16th Nov. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/482-2a; MS JT/1/HTYP/482-2a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16 ten Nov., 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2223,2225, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 16th 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/229; MS JT/1/HTYP/480-1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/63, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1856
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/98)
Summary:
Mr Hardy, CD’s tenant at Beesby, has spent £105 on improvements to the farm. JH suggests different ways of recompensing the tenant, and asks for CD’s decision.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Auguste de la Rive
Date:
17th, Nov, 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/343-4, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Herbert
Date:
17 November 1856
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/70
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
17 Nov [1856-7]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.62–63)
Summary:
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.20
Summary:
Thanks JH for note explaining colored glasses and 'positive' colors, saying WP only had a chance to do experiments with 'negative' colors thus far. Accepts JH's invitation to visit.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
18 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (June 1991); Remember When Antiquities (dealers) (catalogue 26, 1992); Gerard A. J. Stodolski Inc. (dealers) (1995)
Summary:
Defers a visit with Lieutenant Blakiston; "my wife is out of health & expects her confinement in a few weeks, & I cannot possibly receive any one here or leave home . . ."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 183
Summary:
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
18 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D24)
Summary:
Obliged for JWL’s note [missing]. Will forward it to Mr Wedgwood.
Remarks, "it was … blunder of A. Woods about your wanting the Furniture."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Frederick Temple
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 343
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19 Nov 56.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/UN/4, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
19 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/99)
Summary:
Is very glad to hear of the increased rent. Prefers lien agreement with tenant, Mr Hardy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
19 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Emma’s illness prevents his attending Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Expects larger collection of skins from West Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A7–A10
Summary:
Discusses means of seed transport.
Considers the difficulty of deciding which, if any, botanical species are real.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1856-7]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.54–55)
Summary:
Thanks for gift [of books requested in 1026]. Sale is a good deal more than he had anticipated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Achille Brachet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.213
Summary:
Sends a few explanations of G. B. Amici's third and sixth series microscopes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 207: 15
Summary:
He is not sure whether he has seen Subularia flowering above the water, but thinks it probably is an aerial flowerer, at least sometimes.
Has been unable to find an anonymous book on pigeons in the University Library.
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
- FEWER