From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Novemb 54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/14, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
13 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/7, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.72
Summary:
Happy that JH may be leaving Mint and returning to scientific pursuits. HW resumed work on equations in finite differences. Hopes to reconcile discrepancy between JH's and P. S. Laplace's solutions. JH's solution renders only particular, not general, solutions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 156
Summary:
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 386
Summary:
George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.
JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 16/54
Source of text:
MS JT/3/45 (interleaved), RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
May Anne Coxe
Date:
16th Nov | before day in the morning
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/252; MS JT/1/TYP/1/262, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.73
Summary:
Approves of JH sharing HW's findings. HW on excellent terms with Augustus De Morgan. Suspects two integrals exist, one real and one imaginary, for P. S. Laplace's equation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:
Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.
Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17th Nov/54
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/114; MS JT/1/TYP3/979, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
17 Nov 1854
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
George Knights
Date:
18 November 1854
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
19 November 1854
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 146.For extracts of this letter see B55.12.03, pp. 357- 60. W. Hooker's editorial changes have only been noted where they change the sense of the manuscript. Editorial additions follow the printed version. There are pencilled instructions to the printer throughout the letter; these have not been noted here. One of the folios of the letter may have been reversed in the guardbook. The sequence of the letter follows that of the published version
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 402
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, HCW says he cannot supply "any list of species as the flora of a single and sterile soil". Suggests a possible source of information, and provides some figures for Britain, but these apply to diverse soils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James and May Anne Coxe
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 20th 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/263a-263b, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 101
Summary:
Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Barton
Date:
[21 November 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0711; Reel 1089
Summary:
Recent gold from Bank of England exhibits unusual properties in melting. Add 0.0005 extra alloy to each ingot.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cornelius Hessel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23ten Nov. 1845
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/121, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
James Coxe
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/243; MS JT/1/TYP/1/264, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project