From:
William Thomson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/32, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Thomson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 24, 1855.
Source of text:
11 (1856), pp. 66-7, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 December 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.279
Summary:
Is glad to hear his health is improving. Has heard that JH is holding a large reception for all his descendents. Is progressing well with the book [on Francis Baily]. Sends a puzzle in spherical trigonometry.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
25 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
Has followed correspondent’s useful suggestions of sources of information [on variation in domesticated animals in various regions of the globe].
Asks him to sound out [Mr Consul Brand?] about skinning some bird specimens for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
25 December 1855
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/36
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 59-60]
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 181-182]
Summary:
Christmas day with the Rajah (Sir James Brooke); admirable character of Brooke; expedition into interior with Dyaks; character and customs of Dyak people; the Malays; fears plants sent to England dead, plans to collect in Celebes; Miss Woodford recommended as wife for ARW by G S (George Silk); possible trip to California.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
26 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A48–A49
Summary:
Sends a book on clubs, which has raised some worrisome questions about the [Down Friendly] Club. Asks JSH’s advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 December 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 324
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gulliver
Date:
27 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:
His thanks for the present [The works of William Hewson, edited by GG, 1846]. [See 1796.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Ellis
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 December 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27 Dec
Source of text:
MS JT/3/900, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
27th Dec. 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1549, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
28 December 1855
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Percy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 December 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 52, 29 December 1855, p. 854
Summary:
Cites [from Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung (1849), p. 157] a report that seeds from graves of ancient Gauls germinated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 52, 29 December 1855, p. 854
Summary:
CD requests accurate information on the extent to which the different varieties of fruit-trees produce seedlings like their parents. Do some varieties of pears and apples tend to produce truer offspring than other varieties?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday night 29th Dec. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/615, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Hermann Knoblauch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
30n Dec. 55
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/21, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
James Brooke
To:
John Brooke Johnson Brooke (formerly Johnson)
Date:
[28-31 Dec. 1855]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90
Summary:
ARW has queried the reported size of an orangutan (pages 10 and 11) in a letter full of domestic and political detail about Sarawak.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Carl Wilhelmi
To:
William Hooker
Date:
31 December 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, no. 233
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Percy
Date:
31 December 1855
Source of text:
YUL Brush Papers, Box 7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project