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DCP-LETT-1660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 6
Summary:

The new pigeon house is nearly complete.

CD is busy trying all sorts of experiments on salting seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1674

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (1)
Summary:

Is collecting facts on variation; questions AG on the alpine flora of the U. S.

Sends a list of plants from AG’s Manual of botany [1848] and asks him to append the ranges of the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-55-04-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 April 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no.150.For an edited extract of this letter see B55.13.09, pp. 360-2. 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

DCP-LETT-1675

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
26 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 89)
Summary:

Explains more clearly what he is looking for in his work on poultry: relative variation at different ages, the effect of disuse on different parts, breeding between wild and domestic, and degree of fertility of "mongrels of very diverse races".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1076

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 26 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/217, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1075

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/7/50-2, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2977a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Morris Moore
Date:
26 April 1855
Source of text:
Moore (1885), 74-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2978

From:
Nathaniel Barnaby
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1676

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

Regrets that he has not published his information on superficial beds except in abbreviated form, on p. 143 of Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1077

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mary Anne Coxe
Date:
27th. April 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/1/271, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1078

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
27th. April 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/599, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1079

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 27th.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/6/1882, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10905

From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.254
Summary:

Hastens to acknowledge his letter and regrets the Literary Society will not be able to count JH among its members.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2979

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Nathaniel Barnaby
Date:
28 April 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2980

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 April 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I104a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1080

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 29th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/216, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1081

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/600, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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