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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Fellows
Date:
2 April 1855
Source of text:
WIHM MS 5634
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
April 3. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/596, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 April 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0051; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sends Mint accounts of last three months for JH's approval. Mr. Ramsay [War Department] still silent on disappearance of Benjamin Wyon's model for Kaffir Medal. Will ask Lord Panmure [Fox Maule] for permission to have Wyon make medal from new model not approved by Queen. Has not yet seen JH's successor, Thomas Graham.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
5 April 1855
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Barton
Date:
[5 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0083.2; Reel 1054
Summary:
Signs and returns Mint accounts. Notes that two are missing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
6 April 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 417
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/41)
Summary:
Asks for a pea variety for an experiment.
Discusses C. F. v. Gärtner’s results [in Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]. Criticises Gärtner’s belief that hybrids are always less fertile than their parents.
Asks about MJB’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 127
Summary:
CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].
CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
Date:
7 April 1855
Source of text:
Uppsala University Handskriftsavdelningen Erik Waller’s Collection of Autographs
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Theophilus Riess
Date:
7 April 1855
Source of text:
SPK DD
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
8 April 1855
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1855). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 8 April 1855, Si Munjon Coal Works, Borneo; communicated by Samuel Stevens]. Zoologist : 13 (154): 4803-4807
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 95
Summary:
Responds to CD’s questions about mountain vegetation of the Cape of Good Hope. The distribution of some plants provides problems for both migration and special creation hypotheses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
10 April 1855
Source of text:
M55/4633, 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
From:
James Hill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0937; Reel 1083
Summary:
Hill introduces courier Thomas Adams, who will pick up JH's parcels. Hopes JH's health is improving. [On verso, signed at Collingwood] Adams's receipt for parcels and one letter, all addressed to officials at Royal Mint.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
11 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/42)
Summary:
Thanks MJB for peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
11 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 15, 14 April 1855, p. 242
Summary:
CD describes his experiments on the effects on germination of the immersion of seeds in sea-water. Hopes to throw light on the distribution of plants. Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle to inform him whether such experiments have already been tried and what class or species of seeds they suppose would be particularly liable to be killed by sea-water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alessandro Palagi
Date:
12 April 1855
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio Bologna, Collezione autografi Pallolti XII.699
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 128
Summary:
Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.
Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.
Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lord Wrottesley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 April 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project