From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Dec [1855-7]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 93 (photocopy)
Summary:
Concerning specimens he wants collected in the Azores.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Archibald Billing
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 December 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 28
Summary:
Sends JSH stone specimens with brief descriptions.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1855
Source of text:
DAR 98: A104–A107
Summary:
What does CD think of A. R. Wallace’s paper in the Annals & Magazine of Natural History ["On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species", n.s. 16 (1855): 184–96]? EB considers it good on the whole.
Japanned variety of peacock.
Regional variations in bird species.
EB has little faith in the aboriginal wildness of the Chillingham cattle.
Races of humped cattle of India, China, and Africa.
Indian and Malayan gigantic squirrels, with various races remaining true to their colour, would afford capital data for Wallace, as would the local varieties of certain molluscs. Has Wallace’s lucid collation of facts unsettled CD’s ideas regarding the persistence of species?
Bengal hybrid race of geese is very uniform in colour and as prolific as the European tame goose [see Natural selection, p. 439].
Will see what he can do for CD with regard to domestic pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.117)
Summary:
Vexed he cannot find head of [Chinese] dog.
First took up skeletonising to see how much young pigeons and poultry differed from the old.
Wishes to ascertain differences in skeletons of pigeons, poultry, covey birds, and rabbits. William Yarrell has shown CD breastbones. W. B. Tegetmeier has shown him skulls of fowls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143
Summary:
Burying charlock seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
9 Dec 1855
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3))
Summary:
Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decr 8th / 55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/220, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Friedrich Wöhler
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 December 1855
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
10 Dec 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.118)
Summary:
Mentions seeing GHKT at BAAS meeting at Oxford [1847].
Reports he is working on variation of species. Asks about varieties of pigeons and other poultry, and asks for specimens from Ceylon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Heywood
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 December 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 166
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
11th. Dec. 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/613, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
12 December 1855
Source of text:
Natural History Museum L. Handwriting collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[12 December 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.163
Summary:
On proper and bad Latin.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[12 December 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.164
Summary:
Concerning exchange of some papers on meteorology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 December 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.227 (C: RGO 6.376.358)
Summary:
Is sending his speculations on the attraction of mountains.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Baker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec 14th 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
James Bevington
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15th Dec. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/1/151, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Peter Riess
Date:
15th Dec. 1855
Source of text:
Slg Darmstaedter 1855 Tyndall Be. 1–58, 48–9, SBB
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Jules Deboscq
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec 15 55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/184, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Amelia Matilda Murray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.442-3
Summary:
Pleased to hear that JH's daughter is to be her successor. Thinks the Queen is right though AM's letters will not turn out to be so pro-slavery as given out to be. [Postscript gives reasons for her resignation.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project