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From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Aug
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/892, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Alexander Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.95
Summary:

Grateful for informing JN regarding JH's health. Ten years since they met, but hopes to renew his acquaintance as opportunity arises.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.94
Summary:

Best wishes for JH's health and convalescence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 August 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 322
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 August
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/894, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Barlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.18
Summary:

Regrets JH's name is not to be on their list. Lady Herschel's request will be attended to. Hopes he will attend any meeting he feels able to when in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.240
Summary:

Congratulations on JH's election as one of the eight foreign members of the French Institute.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Sir B. Brodie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 34
Summary:

Arranges for a visit by JSH to Brodie’s estate, Broome Park, Surrey.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3d August 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/57, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Miss Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.271
Summary:

Has not heard from her father for some time. Would she inform her father that Richard Sheepshanks died this morning of apoplexy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1855
Source of text:
DAR 98: A69–A78
Summary:

Sends a skeleton of a Bengal jungle cock.

Has never heard of trained otters breeding in captivity.

Introduced domestic rabbits are confined to the ports of India.

Canaries and other tame finches and thrushes brought into India do not breed well.

Origin of the domestic canary. Tendency of domesticated birds to produce "top-knot" varieties.

The tame geese of lower Bengal are hybrids; those of upper Bengal are said to be pure Anser cygnoides.

Wild Anser cinereus occur in flocks in the cold season.

Discusses at length different breeds of domestic cats and possible wild progenitors. Wild and domestic cats occasionally interbreed. The Angora variety breeds freely with the common Bengal cat and all stages of intermediates can be found.

Believes pigeons have been bred in India since remote antiquity.

Discusses whether mankind is divided into races or distinct species.

[CD’s notes are an abstract of this letter.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Elie Wartmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 5 aout 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Longman
Date:
6 August 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[6 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.157
Summary:

Expresses great sorrow at the death of Richard Sheepshanks; JH has been ill for many months.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Elie Wartmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 8 aout 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/7, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.272
Summary:

Was pleased to see his handwriting again especially as he had heard that JH had died. Elizabeth Baily was upset by the death of Richard Sheepshanks. Will be going down for the funeral tomorrow and hopes to meet G. B. Airy and William Simms. Both of JH's daughters have corresponded with him over his health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 August 1855
Source of text:
No. 1611, unit 1, pp. 339-40, VPRS 2814 outward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9th Aug. 1855
Source of text:
MS 7777/01, Wellcome
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Peter Theophilus Riess
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 August 1855
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 350-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl Wilhelmi
Date:
10 August 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, no. 233.Extract from C. Wilhelmi to W. Hooker, 31 December 1855, in this edition as M55-12-31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project