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DCP-LETT-1714

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 192–3
Summary:

Australian Leguminosae problem: of 900 species not ten are common to southwest and southeast. No migration; hence either creation or variation.

Himalayan thistles: graded intermediates between large and small English species, "shakes species to their foundations". Similarity of CD’s and his views on species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel300

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 July 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.52
Summary:

Has had a letter from Melbourne University, with instructions to transfer all the money to Melbourne's agent in London [see GA's 1855-5-30]; JH is slowly recovering.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 July [1855]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Asks GRW if there is any easy systematic work on Lepidoptera for his sons. Considers making out the names from descriptions fine practice for the intellect; mere collecting is idle work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1104

From:
Charles Hawker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 July 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/2/7/149, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-55-07-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
9 July 1855
Source of text:
MS Q424 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a copy of this letter see Public Record Office, London, CO 201/485, original correspondence, NSW, 1855, despatches July & August vol 3, f. 34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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HENSLOW-405

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 July 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday3004

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, pp.4034-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1105

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10th, July 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4034-6; 4:3004, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-M55-07-11

From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Edward Thomson
Date:
11 July 1855
Source of text:
No. 55/7507, 4/3284 letters received, Colonial Secretary's Office, Archives Authority of New South Wales, Sydney.For a copy of the this letter see: MS Q429 outward letter copy book, p. 77, A. C. Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-1716

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A38–A39
Summary:

Asks for advice on establishing a control group in his experiments to produce sports and varieties of Lychnis diurna.

Seeks seeds of wild Dianthus for hybridising and producing varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1103

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
11 July 1855
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1106

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Wednesady morning before 6 o'c
Source of text:
HP 1:19, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1715

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 27
Summary:

Returns CD’s list of Azores plants with information on the distribution of the species added. Encloses a list, extracted from CD’s list, of those plants common to Europe and the Azores that were probably not introduced by man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-643

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 July 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 16
Summary:

Discusses crustacea analysis to be done by Bell and others, together with labourers’ horticultural show organised by JSH.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FVM-55-07-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
12 July 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, between letter nos 153-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1107

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 July
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/886, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1108

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 July
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/889, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3005

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cornelia Augusta Hewett Crosse
Date:
12 July 1855
Source of text:
Gladstone (1874), 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-406

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 July 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 302
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1109

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
13th July 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/606, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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