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Herschel13667

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0047; Reel 1087
Summary:

E. L. J. Ridsdale is qualified for Assay office and will return on probation. Production [of Crimean medal]. Distribution of copper coins. Hopes JH's health is improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1644

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 210–13
Summary:

JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].

Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.

Why are flightless insects common in desert?

Australian endemism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Henfrey
Date:
17 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13487

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Henry Barton]
Date:
[17 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0720; Reel 1089
Summary:

Approves delegating E. L. J. Ridsdale to represent [WB] in 'attending the Pyx' during assay process. Does not approve of transferring Ridsdale before his probationary year as assayer is completed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13668

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0048; Reel 1087
Summary:

New details of gold shipment to Australia aboard vessel Hannibal. Will order more copper from Hays & Son for use as gold alloy at Sydney branch mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7029

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.270
Summary:

Hopes to hear how he is progressing. Looks as though he wanted rest and air. Sends a theorem for his consideration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
18 [Mar 1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

CD has been a referee for LH’s Nile geology paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. Praises the work but offers criticism not in his report: Joseph Russegger’s statement about the baked Upper Sandstone deposit cannot be believed; LH’s paper is too long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13774

From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0125; Reel 1087
Summary:

Estimates cost of producing a single [Crimean] medal at 35 shillings. Die Department now working 13 hours daily on medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1651

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
19 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87)
Summary:

Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.

CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.

Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey; Royal Society of London
Date:
19 Mar 1855
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 111)
Summary:

Recommends publication of Leonard Horner’s account of researches in alluvial deposits of Egypt [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. It contains valuable observations which will probably become of still higher value in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3586

From:
Henry Norton Shaw
To:
Woodbine Parish
Date:
19 March 1855
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: JMS 8/17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[20 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:

CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1058

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1007, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2955

From:
Peter Theophilus Riess
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1651A

From:
John Davy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1855
Source of text:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 146 (1856): 21–9
Summary:

On the ova of the salmon in relation to the distribution of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1059

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Margaret Ginty
Date:
21st March 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3642, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1060

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
21st March 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1537, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14622

From:
Leonard Charles Wyon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0605; Reel 1086
Summary:

Must know soon if LW's wax model for Kaffir medal has been approved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2956

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 March 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1061

From:
William Thomson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 22, 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/12, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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