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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Julius Plücker
Date:
8 April 1856
Source of text:
NRCC ISTI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Alexander John Ellis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.39
Summary:
Sending his completed universal alphabet with comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander Wight, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.247
Summary:
Lens safely returned. Not aware of lenses in 1851 Exhibition or of C. F. Sturm's solid lenses. Notes advantages of plate glass. Offers to make three foot by three foot square lens. Recognizes limitations for use in astronomy; hopes for other applications.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 33)
Summary:
Arrangements for visit of Huxleys to Down on 26 Apr.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
[before 10 Apr 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A99
Summary:
CD asks whether New Zealand tribes have an idea of beauty in women which is "like ours"; WBDM answers, "Yes".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
10 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Thanks WBDM for his reply [missing] to CD’s previous letter [1603].
Asks for more details on the erratic blocks.
Asks also if there is good evidence that there formerly existed [in New Zealand] some animal with hair, like an otter or beaver.
Finally, do the uncivilised natives have the same ideal of [human] beauty as Europeans?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Faraday and Sarah Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
11 April 1856
Source of text:
UB MS NS 423
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 April 1856
Source of text:
Mrs Raven Frankland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edwin Sidney
Date:
11 April 1856
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Richard Thomas Lowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1856
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection, Journal I: 132–6)
Summary:
Discusses the flora of Porto Santo in relation to that of Madeira. While these islands have some 20 endemic species in common, there are 7 or 8 species endemic to Porto Santo alone, and 25 common to Porto Santo and Europe that are not found on Madeira. Believes the great difference in soil and climate is enough to explain this: plants common on one island cannot be made to grow on the other. Believes J. D. Hooker has underestimated the number of species endemic to Madeira. There are some remarkable endemic species of common plants in the Dezertas.
The eel is the only freshwater fish on Porto Santo and Madeira.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.190
Summary:
Is considering becoming a candidate for the position of Registrar at London University and would welcome support from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 April 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 182
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
13 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16)
Summary:
Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Few & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.211
Summary:
Thanks for the check. Will search for the deeds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.228 (C: RGO 6.376.360)
Summary:
Requesting advice on his reflex zenith tube. Regarding progress on 'Standards.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 April 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/2/469, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 April 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 68
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 218
Summary:
Is interested by what CD tells him about his researches and speculations on species, variation, and distribution. Hopes he will not give up the idea of publishing his views. Advises CD on need for caution and candour. Raises some difficulties with "specific centre" theory of distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
16 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 18
Summary:
Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Gray
Date:
16 April 1856
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project