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From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c. September 1855
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 378
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Caroline Deacon
Date:
2 September 1855
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
3 September 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 153.For an edited version of this letter see B56.13.03. The changes in the printed version noted here are those that alter sense, or the spelling of plant and place names. Doubtful transcriptions follow the printed text. Annotations comprising instructions to the printer are not reproduced here. Almost all plant names have been underlined but, as it was not M's usual practice to do so, most of these have been interpreted as editorial markings, and omitted
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
J. E. Gray
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 September 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 161
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 [Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 18)
Summary:
Approves drawing. No one who cannot draw should attempt to be a naturalist. Suggests corrections to [Lepas?] drawing. Comments on position of ganglia, cement glands, and stomach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 September 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4138
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3. Sept. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4138; 4:3022, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
James Nash
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0397; Reel 1087
Summary:
JN's duties at Mint ended with successful completion of copper coinage at Birmingham. Asks JH for testimonial to help JN find other government employment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 September 1855
Source of text:
RI MS T TS, volume 12, p.4042
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4042; 4:3023, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood
Date:
5 Sept [1855]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:
Thanks HAW for columbine and asparagus seeds and for counting pods for him. CD is astonished at the number of pods. Needs more seeds for one of his experiments.
Has he met Huxley yet? He is a very clever man.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Crichton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 September 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I075
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A51–5
Summary:
Comments on the ease with which different species of Felis can be tamed.
Asian species of wild cattle.
Variation in colour of jackals.
Discusses the difficulties of differentiating between varieties and species. EB recommends Herman Schlegel’s definition of species [in Essay on the physiognomy of serpents, trans. T. S. Traill (1843)]. Problems of defining species of wolves and squirrels. Pigeons and doves afford an illustration of "clusters of species, varieties, or races". Various pigeons have local species in different parts of India and Burma, some of which interbreed where their ranges cross; as do the local species of Coracias [see Natural selection, p. 259].
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Clark
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 September 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Pringle Nichol
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/N/13, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[13 Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Would welcome any distinct breed of poultry and would be glad to have any good pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Tyndall
Date:
Sunday evening
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16/159, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/611, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
William Wilson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 September 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 358
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Sept 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A85–A92
Summary:
Gives extract from a letter from Capt. R. Tickell: rabbits are not bred by the Burmese; common European and Chinese geese are bred but have probably only recently been introduced.
EB gives references to works illustrating the dog-like instinct of N. American wolves.
Discusses reason and instinct; ascribes both to man and animals. Comments on various instincts, e. g. homing, migratory, parental, constructive, and defensive. Reasoning in animals; cattle learning to overcome fear of passing trains.
Hybrid sterility as an indication of distinct species. Interbreeding as an indication of common parentage.
Enlarges upon details given by J. C. Prichard [in The natural history of man (1843)].
Adaptation of the two-humped camel to cold climates. Camel hybrids.
Doubts that domestic fowl or fancy pigeons have ever reverted to the wild.
Feral horses and cattle of S. America.
Believes the "creole pullets" to be a case of inaccurate description.
Variations in skulls between species of wild boar.
Pigs are so prolific that the species might be expected to cross.
Milk production of cows and goats.
Sheep and goats of lower Bengal.
Indian breeds of horses.
Variation in Asiatic elephants.
Spread of American tropical and subtropical plants in the East.
EB distinguishes between races and artificially-produced breeds.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum.]
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