From:
Friedrich Ludwig Stegmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Mai 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/210, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday May 20th /55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/218, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 May 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
21 May [1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 21, 26 May 1855, pp. 356–7
Summary:
Reports on his experiments on action of sea-water on seeds and the bearing of his investigations on the theory of centres of creation and Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions to account for distribution of organic forms. CD’s experiments confirm germination powers were retained after 42 days’ immersion by seven out of eight kinds of seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21st May 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/290, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1855
Source of text:
DAR 106: D1–D2
Summary:
Has filled up CD’s paper [see 1674].
Distribution and relationships of alpine flora in U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 92)
Summary:
He may insert his request for lizards’ eggs in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
His study of mongrel chicks is to ascertain whether the young of domestic breeds differ as much as their parents.
Has already sent a communication on means of distribution of plants by sea to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 May 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.45
Summary:
A letter to accompany Frederick McCoy's 1855-3-9, indicating that it seems appropriate to pay the bills. One of the professors just appointed has died in Australia.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.49
Summary:
Will communicate with the other committee members about a replacement for the Melbourne University professor who died [see JH's 1855-5-23].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0423; Reel 1087
Summary:
Appeals to Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] are producing great changes in [parliamentary bill for new statutes at Cambridge University]. But Heads of Houses are angry. William Whewell's responses are 'arbitrary and despotic.' Extreme agitation at Cambridge.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Jane Marcet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 May 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Wolstenholme Ward
Date:
[25 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0492.1; Reel 1055
Summary:
JH, 'completely broken in health,' ceased to be Master of Mint in Apr. 1855. Successor is Professor [Thomas] Graham of University College. Keep Master informed of stock of dies for coins in Sydney. Glad that EW's office as deputy-master is independent of colonial government. Regards to Charles Elouis and J. Triskett.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 26 May 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 21, 26 May 1855, p. 360
Summary:
Will be obliged if any reader can provide eggs of lizard Lacerta agilis. Wants to ascertain whether they float in sea-water. Offers reward of a few shillings to boys for collecting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q429 outward letter copy book, p. 53, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 418
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q423 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Francis
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' Correspondence, vol. 74, letter number 69
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/87)
Summary:
Discusses his account.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 132
Summary:
CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];
CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".
Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.
Photographs and drawings of CD.
Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/602, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project