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DCP-LETT-1641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
4 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29)
Summary:

A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.

CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"

Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2947

From:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14623

From:
Leonard Charles Wyon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0606; Reel 1086
Summary:

Will visit JH tomorrow at Bedford Place to submit LW's wax model for Kaffir medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2948

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Date:
6 March 1855
Source of text:
BrUL MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2949

From:
Paolo Volpicelli
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12696

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
[6 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0109.2; Reel 1054
Summary:

Reminds WB that Mint rules do not permit paying skilled laborer's wages to casual employees such as Patrick Shanahan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1638

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 216–17
Summary:

CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.

Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.

Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14782

From:
Alexander Shaw
To:
Henry John Temple
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1047; Reel 1083
Summary:

Copy [in JH's hand] of doctor's prescription for four to five weeks of bed rest and country air for JH before resuming duties at Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1643

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 126
Summary:

Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.

T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14351

From:
Robert Francis Suft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0512.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends audit form with covering letter for JH's signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1111

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.7
Summary:

Asks GS about ordering instruments from [George] Wilson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12883

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry John Temple
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0294; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's health is worse. Please expedite JH's request to resign from mastership of Mint. Seeks HT's approval to turn JH's duties over to W. H. Barton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14352

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Barton
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0512.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Expects difficulty with wages listed for Patrick Shanahan and one other worker at Mint. Find documents that authorized JH to pay additional overtime wages during coinage pressure of last two years.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-395

From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 March 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 321
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1642

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 20
Summary:

Comparison of skulls of Ichthyosaurus and Cetacea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13662

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0044.1; Reel 1062
Summary:

Delayed paying [W. O.] Young until JH approves papers on Hannibal claim [for ship's salvage].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13663

From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0044.2; Reel 1062
Summary:

Encloses two Mint documents relating to wages for Patrick Shanahan and another worker. JH failed to return papers on Hannibal claim.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13764

From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7] March [1855
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0116.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Gives former reason for retaining Charles Stiles, who may now be dismissed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13771

From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0122; Reel 1087
Summary:

Wages and overtime pay for Patrick Shanahan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 25)
Summary:

Thanks THH for corroborating his observations. Discusses metamorphosis of ovaria to cement organs. Ovaries, germinal vesicles, and anatomy of cirripedes. Difficulties of classification, and observation.

THH’s article on Mollusca [Charles Knight, ed., English cyclopædia: a new dictionary of universal knowledge (1854–70) 3: 855–74].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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