Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
26 [June] [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.508v
Summary:
Summarizes for JH the more extensive report appended, which recommends to the R.S.L. and the B.A.A.S. the establishment of magnetic observatories in several Colonial locations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1858]
Source of text:
B.A.A.S. Report 1858 (1859), 303-5
Summary:
States his detailed recommendations concerning the continuation, extension, and location of magnetic researches at various locations throughout the world.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
26 [June 1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.154)
Summary:
Is it fair to take advantage of knowing that Wallace is in the field? Seems hard on CD to lose priority of many years, but does not feel this alters justice of case.
Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] has much fever. Frightened because three children in village have died from scarlet fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Cheverton
Date:
26 June 1858
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Hooker Collection Misc. Letters, f.82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 June 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.500
Summary:
Intends to set up a meeting with appropriate members of the B.A.A.S., in order to prepare presentation about magnetic observatories for the B.A.A.S. meetings in Leeds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[26 June 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.145.187
Summary:
Responds to GA's 1858-6-25, and essentially agrees with GA's assessment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
27 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115)
Summary:
Profoundly sorry for Lane.
Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.
Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.
Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 June 1858
Source of text:
UB MS NS 436
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 June 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 June 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Lucas Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 June 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 June 1858
Source of text:
No. 58/1975, unit 1, p. 338, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 240
Summary:
Darwin responding to Hooker's request for papers. Darwin seems resigned to not to ARW usurping him regarding the explanation of how and why species change over time, "I daresay all is too late. I hardly care about it.—".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Conveys news of the death of Darwin's baby son. References letters received from Hooker regarding the suggestion that they present ARW's paper and Darwin's writings as a joint paper to the Linnaean Society.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
F58/5724, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 240
Summary:
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 June 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 June 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.8 (C: RGO 6.694.501)
Summary:
Supports JH's intentions [see JH's 1858-6-26] and Edward Sabine's proposals about magnetic observations, but displays little faith in the effectiveness of the B.A.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
Correspondent
- Airy, George Biddell5
- Balmain, Thomas2
- Becker, Ludwig1
- Bell, John Zephaniah1
- Bentham, George1
- Berthon, Peter Henry5
- Chance, James Timmins1
- Chance, Robert Lucas2
- Cheverton, Benjamin1
- Circular from Lord Chamberlains’s Office1
- Cole, Henry1
- Cooke, Edward William1
- Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett1
- Darwin, C. R.30
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Duffy, Charles1
- Eyton, T. C.1
- Faraday, Michael21
- Fifth Earl De La Warr1
- Forbes, James David1
- Fox, W. D.3
- Francis, George1
- Graham, Thomas1
- Gray, Asa2
- Grey, George1
- Gye, Frederick1
- Henslow, J. S.2
- Herschel, John17
- Higgins, John1
- Hooker, J. D.9
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Hooker, Maria Sarah1
- Hooker, William2
- Lane, R.1
- Librarian1
- Linnean Society1
- Lubbock, John1
- Lyell, Charles7
- Marshall, J[ames] G[arth]1
- Moore, John4
- Mueller, Ferdinand von24
- Murchison, R. I.2
- Murchison, Roderick Impey1
- O'Shanassy, John8
- Parsons (Lord Rosse), William1
- Plücker, Julius1
- Pollock, Juliet2
- Prestwich, Joseph1
- Robinson, Thomas Romney1
- Sabine, Edward5
- Schlagintweit, Hermann1
- Schoenbein, Christian Friedrich2
- Sharpey, William1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.3
- Trevelyan, Charles Edward1
- Tyndall, John3
- Wheatstone, Charles1
- Whewell, William1
- Woods, Julian Tenison1
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