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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
July 1855
Source of text:
No. 9903, vol. 1855 O, VPRS 1186 inward correspondence registers, 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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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4029-33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1st July
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4029-33; 4:3000, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
1st July 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/605, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-7-1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.109-110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A31–A35
Summary:

Sends a list of plants with stamps to pay the Hitcham girls who will collect seeds for him.

Describes his work with seeds in salt water.

For his experiments he would like seeds collected from plants that grow both near Hitcham and in the Azores.

Explains again what JSH should do in marking "close species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Carew Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 166: 282
Summary:

Answers queries on Azores fauna and flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.156
Summary:

Thanks WS for 'kind expressions on my behalf.' Believes these may be the last words he may write.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
3 July [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/44)
Summary:

Reports success of seed-soaking experiments. Celery and onion germinate after 85 days’ immersion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
3 July 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
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.111, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Frederick Bashford; Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A56
Summary:

Notes on the interbreeding of different races of silkworm. [Forwarded with explanatory note by Edward Blyth.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 140
Summary:

Has named 35 species of grasses.

Seed-salting continues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Text Online
From:
Myles Custance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 July 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.365
Summary:

Has heard from W. H. Smyth that JH is suffering from serious and protracted indisposition. Hopes he will soon be restored to health as he himself has been.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16/159, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
6 July 1855
Source of text:
RS MS RR 3.154
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
7 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A36–A37, A114
Summary:

Thanks JSH for seeds.

Clarifies his request about marking [London] catalogue [of British plants] – JSH is to mark those he thinks really are species, but which are very closely allied to some other species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the Editor of the Times
Date:
7 July 1855
Source of text:
Times, 9 July 1855, p.8, col. f
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 July 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 252
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project