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Herschel4426

From:
Thomas Hindle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1855]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (84)
Summary:

Describes an unusual double rainbow with the second bow extending from an angle to the main arc.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1147

From:
Edward Hughes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17th Oct. 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/2/650, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP360

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
[28 Sept. & 17 Oct. 1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/35
Summary:

The Sims' move to Conduit Street and photography business, with detailed advice and questions, suggests asking Mr Vignolles [Vignoles] to introduce their work at Royal Society Soirees; mother's future; post from England and arrival of a box with shoes (good) and bacon (spoiled).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Tyndall1148

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 oct.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/898, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1742

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Oct 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 146
Summary:

Seeds of two tropical island plants have floated for ten days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7034

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 October 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.274
Summary:

Was pleased to hear from Elizabeth Baily that JH is improving in health. Knows a doctor who can produce jaundice. Plan is on foot to publish Francis Baily's travels in America. Hopes JH will allow his life of Baily to be included. Monument to Richard Sheepshanks is under consideration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3029

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
20 October 1855
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
20 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 15)
Summary:

Would be useless to insert CD’s name [on masthead of Entomologists’ Annual] since he does not work on insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1811

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Oct 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A93–A98
Summary:

Gives references to William Allen’s narrative of the Niger expedition [William Allen and T. R. H. Thompson , A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty’s Government to the river Niger in 1841 (1848)]: common fowl returning to wildness, details of domestic sheep, ducks, and white fowl.

Range of the fallow deer; its affinity to the Barbary stag.

Natural propensity of donkeys for arid desert.

Indian donkeys often have zebra markings on the legs.

Believes the common domestic cat of India is indigenous.

Occurrence of cultivated plants from Europe in India; success of cultivation. Ancient history of cultivated plants.

[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum and indicate that it was originally 20 pages long.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1149

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct. 22/55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/44, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FL-0379

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[23? October 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel4837

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.226 (C: RGO 6.12.148)
Summary:

Requesting comments on enclosed papers concerning Greenwich Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
25 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.114)
Summary:

Unable to give information on Mrs Shaw of Crayford.

Mentions TCE’s interest in dog- and pig-skeleton researches.

Interested in seeing the Eyton Museum.

Reminisces about entomology [at Cambridge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2491

From:
Hermann Schlagintweit
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.352
Summary:

Happy to have met JH. Discusses journey in Himalayas. Would be glad to send JH any information he would like about the tropical climate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3030

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
26 October 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-419

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 October 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 253
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
29 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A101–A102
Summary:

Gives directions for sending seeds collected at Hitcham. The Lychnis and Myosotis have come up. Will begin their "torments" next spring [i.e., experiments to produce "sports"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1150

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct. 30th /55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/4/1344, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3031

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 October 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3032

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
30 October 1855
Source of text:
IC MS LP255
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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