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DCP-LETT-1624

From:
Arthur Edward Knox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1855-7
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 243
Summary:

CD has suggested an explanation of how pike were introduced to a remote lake in Ireland by cormorants [carrying pike spawn on their feet or in their gullets].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2945

From:
Alessandro Palagi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP7112

From:
John Brooke Johnson Brooke (formerly Johnson)
To:
[Francis Charles] [Johnson]
Date:
[March?] [1855]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90.6.5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-55-03-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
1 March 1855
Source of text:
L55/3383, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-55-03-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
1 March 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 149.For an edited copy of this letter see B55.13.09. The changes in the printed version noted here are those that alter sense, or the spelling of plant and place names
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1050

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Thursday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/895, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14758

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1855-3]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0946.2; Reel 1083
Summary:

Reports status of Crimean medal and Cape medal [Kaffir medal?]. Benjamin Wyon expects to have models ready soon. [Addressed to 'My Lord'.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13483

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[2 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0717; Reel 1089
Summary:

Extraordinary demand for gold and silver coin in 1852-54 has subsided. Reports disposition of twelve Custom House employees who were assigned to Mint as temporary clerks for this period.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1640

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 136
Summary:

Hybrid insects.

Description of the Salvages.

Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.

Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1625

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 133–4
Summary:

Gives instances of sexual differences in the number of tarsi within species of Coleoptera and also variation in the number of tarsi between related species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2946

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 March 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I090b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
4 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29)
Summary:

A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.

CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"

Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2947

From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14623

From:
Leonard Charles Wyon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0606; Reel 1086
Summary:

Will visit JH tomorrow at Bedford Place to submit LW's wax model for Kaffir medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2948

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Date:
6 March 1855
Source of text:
BrUL MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2949

From:
Paolo Volpicelli
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12696

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[6 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0109.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Reminds WB that Mint rules do not permit paying skilled laborer's wages to casual employees such as Patrick Shanahan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1638

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 216–17
Summary:

CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.

Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.

Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14782

From:
Alexander Shaw
To:
Henry John Temple
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1047; Reel 1083
Summary:

Copy [in JH's hand] of doctor's prescription for four to five weeks of bed rest and country air for JH before resuming duties at Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1643

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 126
Summary:

Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.

T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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