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WCP612

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
May 1855
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/139
  • Wallace, A. R. (1855). Borneo. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art: 2023: 683-684
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 53-56]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 178]
Summary:

Describing the locality and people; thoughts on differences between "civilised" and "savage".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel13672

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0052; Reel 1087
Summary:

Final pay approved for JH. Thomas Graham has not yet received full authority [as JH's successor]. Production of Crimean Medal. No success in finding Benjamin Wyon's model of Kaffir Medal in War Department. Encloses reply from Philadelphia Mint regarding new weighing machine. Shipment of copper to Sydney branch mint. Cost of producing Kaffir ribbon. Wyon's dies are breaking.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-55-05-02

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 May 1855
Source of text:
No. 345, unit 1, p. 728, VPRS 3150 outward letter books to miscellaneous and Assay Master, 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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HENSLOW-642

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 May 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 15
Summary:

Discusses publication and distribution of the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society. Also discusses the influence of the Society and the status of natural sciences at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-397

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 May 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 178
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10721

From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.74
Summary:

Sends a letter of praise for the family Herschel, including especially JH and his father, William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1082

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6th May 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/4/1464-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90)
Summary:

William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.

CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2981

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 May 1855
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14196

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0422; Reel 1087
Summary:

Told John Romilly that JH cannot attend meeting to review amendments to Cambridge [University] bill. Large protest meeting by university residents yesterday. Believes Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] will abandon bill. GP's view of how amended bill should distribute authority at university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 May [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.113)
Summary:

Mentions his paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. Discusses ice-borne rock. Reference to unpublished paper on icebergs [?"Power of icebergs to make grooves", Collected papers 1: 252–5]. Remarks on scoring by icebergs. Comments on judgment of theories by Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP781

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 May 1855
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418279
Summary:

Thanks for Waterhouse's report on ARW's Singapore Curculionidae - ARW's collecting activities and plans of a visit to Celebes and his quest for the Orang-utan, etc.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-55-05-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
9 May 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 151
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday2982

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
9 May 1855
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1037

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Miss Yates
Date:
10 May 1855
Source of text:
Dunedin University Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1083

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 6th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/217, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel13702

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0057.27; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sign and return three enclosed letters from Cambridge University Commissioners to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple], John Russell, and Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] regarding amended Cambridge University bill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-55-05-11

From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q429 outward letter copy book, p. 46, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1084

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Mai 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 131
Summary:

JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.

On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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