From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
HP 1:17-18, IC
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Elias Loomis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.308
Summary:
Has recently published a volume on Practical Astronomy and dispatched a copy via Messrs. Trubner for JH. Believes it fills a need as there has been no suitable work available for beginners.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0421; Reel 1087
Summary:
JH's views coincide with GP's views about constitution of [Cambridge] University. Adam Sedgwick, GP, and John Romilly will compose joint letter to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple], pointing out that present parliamentary bill [to make new statutes for Cambridge] is totally opposed to recommendations [of Cambridge University Commission] and to liberal constitution granted to Oxford University.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 129
Summary:
Rejects JDH’s suggestion that seed-salting experiments be conducted on huge scale. Only wishes to demonstrate possibility of sea transport, not establishment of any particular insular flora. More seed results.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 April 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/597, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
20 April [1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0413; Reel 1087
Summary:
Will send copies tomorrow to JH and to Bishop of Chester [John Graham] of letter that GP, W. H. Bateson, and Adam Sedgwick wrote to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple], after consulting with John Romilly. Please sign and return it quickly, so it can be presented to [House of] Lords before Tuesday. Encloses copy of bill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
20 April [1855]
Source of text:
MM/19/8, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
20 April 1855
Source of text:
California Historical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1855
Source of text:
DAR 98: A57–A68
Summary:
Indigenous domestic animals of the New World.
Relationship of Newfoundland and Esquimo dogs to the wolf. Dogs like the Esquimo occur in Tibet and Siberia. Indian pariah dogs and jackals occasionally interbreed.
Describes domestic cats of India; reports cases of their interbreeding with wild cats. Wild cats are tamed for hunting.
Races of silkworm in India are crossed [see 1690].
Domesticated plants, fish, and birds of India.
Comments on local races and species of crows; it is impossible to trace a line of demarcation between races and species.
Variation in the ability of hybrids to propagate.
Indian cattle breeds; differences between Bos indicus and Bos taurus.
Is not satisfied that aboriginally wild species of horse and ass exist.
Believes all fancy breeds of pigeon originated in the East. Wild ancestors of pigeons, ducks, geese, and fowls. Interbreeding of wild species of pheasant.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this letter.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 21/55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/43, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
21 April 1855
Source of text:
A251 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
21 April 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.26; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sends copy of letter by Dean of Ely [George Peacock], Adam Sedgwick, and 'Master of the Rolls ' [John Romilly] to be sent to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple] and to Lord Chancellor. Please sign and return it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1855
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 7)
Summary:
CL would like to put Joachim Barrande on the Royal Society’s foreign list. Of French geologists and palaeontologists, he is the man who has made the greatest sacrifices and produced the greatest results.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Swaine Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 April 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 24
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/35; MS JT/2/7/48-9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 130
Summary:
More on seed-salting. JDH’s admission that he expected seeds to die in a week gives CD "a nice little triumph".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 11 (EH 88206460)
Summary:
Praise for JL’s interesting paper ["On the freshwater entomostraca of South America", Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. n.s. 3 (1854–6): 232–46].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[24 April 1855]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 15 (1855), 158-9
Summary:
Recommends use of photography to prepare records of sunspot activity. Makes suggestions on how this could be done most effectively.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project