Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 April 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 46)
Summary:
Invitation to THH and wife to come to Down to meet H. C. Watson, T. V. Wollaston, and the Hookers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Wight, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.246
Summary:
Sends small lens. Its components neither parallel nor concentric; contains water. Suggests new polishing method. Estimates 4-foot lens would cost £7-£8. [JH Note: Tested and returned lens. Noted advantages and deficiencies and suggests improvements. Listed others who built similar lenses.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A140–A143
Summary:
Reports observations on Indian pigeons from David Scott at Hansi. EB adds remarks on Indian breeds he has encountered. Suggests Egypt, Turkey, and Syria would be good places from which to obtain specimens. Believes domestic races are all descended from Columba livia; their calls are all similar and they pair indiscriminately.
Guinea-fowl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Grey
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
1856 [2065], Parliamentary Papers
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
3 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.
Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Redmond Barry
To:
Charles Pasley
Date:
3 April 1856
Source of text:
Letterbook of the Council 1854-71, University of Melbourne Archives, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
4 April 1856
Source of text:
Joan Bucknall
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A102
Summary:
European men choose partners for different reasons. Savages select more for bodily attraction than facial beauty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 April 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 67
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4-6-1856 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.330
Summary:
Regarding experiments on the Mohamet's coffin theory. His son Wilfrid has won a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Sunday 6th April
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/889, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
R. G. Latham
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 April 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 119b
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Richardson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 April 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 275(i) and (ii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
6 April [1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.331
Summary:
[Reply to GA's [1856-4-6 or earlier] on Mohamet's coffin theory.] Congratulations on GA's son winning a scholarship. JH's health is better, but he cannot walk yet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 April 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Henry Provost Babbage
Date:
7th April 1856
Source of text:
37196-464, BL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Birch
Date:
8 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1494)
Summary:
His thanks for the extracts sent by SB.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 April 1856
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 160
Summary:
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
