From:
Achille Brachet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1855-11
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.211
Summary:
On telescopes and their fittings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
1855-11
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0450; Reel 1055
Summary:
Reports death of [Richard Jones]. John Herschel (son) returned from Scotland and goes to Addiscombe Thursday. 'Our governors' have a mess to deal with. Margaret is still weak. What is usual fee for London surgeon?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.295
Summary:
Has difficulty in providing Mr. Loyd with a pew; would she object if he moves the pew occupied by her servants to a different part of the church? Hopes JH did not catch a chill yesterday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
2 November 1855
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 365-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 3 Nov 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 44, 3 November 1855, p. 726
Summary:
CD requests further details about a rain of shells on the Isle of Wight reported by a Gardeners’ Chronicle correspondent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.115)
Summary:
Comments on two pamphlets by John Bachman [probably Continuation of the review of "Nott and Gliddon’s types of mankind" (1855) and An examination of the characteristics of genera and species as applicable to the doctrine of the unity of the human race (1855)].
CD’s pigeon breeding and plant hybridization experiments.
Invites CL to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov 4th / 55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/219, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1855
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/935, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 153
Summary:
Naudin’s theory, in J. Decaisne’s review of Flora Indica, of subspecies descended from a single stock only adds to the confusion. John Lindley and M. J. Berkeley cut down species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
6 November 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 419
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[6 November 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.160
Summary:
Comments on Francis Baily's travel writings and on Richard Sheepshanks's epitaph.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 November 1855
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Achille Brachet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.210
Summary:
Concerning telescopes and their fittings, and queries relative to them. Intends to publish a work on them.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A108–A109
Summary:
History of the rose in India.
Looks forward to reading what Hooker and Thompson say on species and varieties in their Flora Indica [1855].
Domestication of the turkey in America. The Peruvians had domestic dogs. W. W. Robinson of Assam reports that otters are extensively trained for fishing but cormorants never are. Gives Robinson’s comments on local domestic geese, rabbits, and cats.
EB has skins of jungle fowl from different localities to send.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 154
Summary:
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 November 1855
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1855
Source of text:
DAR 181: 31
Summary:
Artificiality of orders and genera in botany.
Difficulties in numerical analysis of close species in large and small genera.
HCW has "pretty strong bias towards the view that species are not immutably distinct".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Rice Crowe
Date:
9 Nov 1855
Source of text:
Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 66)
Summary:
Thanks him for seeds used in immersion experiment.
Sends thanks to M. N. Blytt and says to tell him species names.
Mentions meeting Edward Sabine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.21; Reel 1093
Summary:
JH is appointed to a committee that will consider repeating the Balloon Experiments of 1852. William Whewell will head the committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project