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WCP5313

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 100: 131-2
Summary:

Hooker is “relieved and pleased” by the letters from ARW that Darwin had forwarded regarding ARW’s reaction to the joint reading of their papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. He discusses his progress on his Australian article. [Hooker, J. D. 1859. On The Flora of Australia: Its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution. In: Botany of the Antarctic Expedition. Part 3: Flora of Tasmania, vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve.] He discusses potential candidates for the Royal Society’s new Foreign Fellow.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6489

From:
Michel Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.255
Summary:

Is working on a volume on the gold standard.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6437

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Christopher Carrington
Date:
[25 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.205 & 23.254
Summary:

On the desirability of one good observatory in India. Thinks Poonah would be the best site. Time not suitable to press for this establishment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.

Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].

Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.

Their collection of bees’ combs.

Praises ARW’s article.

Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1585

From:
George Biddell Air
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1859 January 26
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/408.381-2, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-59-01-26

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 139, unit 4, p. 35, VPRS 1187 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-01-26a

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1859
Source of text:
J59/541, unit 843, 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

RS-MM-001488

From:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie, President, Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1859
Source of text:
MM/19/88, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4359

From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.445
Summary:

Returns a letter from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3555

From:
Charles Locock
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 January 1859
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-59-01-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
27 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/666, unit 843, 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

Herschel5707

From:
James Booth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.198
Summary:

Sending parts of his paper on the Lagocyclic curve.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-01-28a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Powlett
Date:
28 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/165, unit 25, VPRS 6605 inward correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2406

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 4
Summary:

CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.

More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1586

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
28th. Jan. 1859
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/408.386, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3556

From:
Nassau William Senior
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 January 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP4749

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
28 January 1859
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1859). [Extracts from a letter from Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens dated 28 Jan. 1859, Batchian; communicated by Stevens to the ESL meeting of 6 June 1859]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1858-1859 : 70
Summary:

An account of ARW’s visceral reaction to capturing a new Ornithoptera, “the finest butterfly in the world”, and explains that he is remaining at Batchian, Moluccas with the intention of collecting additional Paradisea specimens.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-01-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
29 January 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2220

From:
Sir Edward Ryan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.464
Summary:

Has shown JH's son's letter to [C. E.] Trevelyan and encloses his reply. Affairs in India may become more dangerous.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1587

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 20th 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/243, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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