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FVM-56-12-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
December 1856
Source of text:
MS Q442 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-1966

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 149
Summary:

Podostemaceae flowering under water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1974

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[early Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 213
Summary:

Sends JDH part of MS for chapter 3 of Natural selection ["Possibility of all organic beings crossing"] to be corrected and returned.

JDH’s report of Podostemon flowering cleistogamously under water in Bengal.

[Copious revision by JDH.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0384

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 December 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2009

From:
George Dickie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1856
Source of text:
DAR 207: 16
Summary:

His observations on Subularia: has never seen it in flower in the air.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2008

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 185
Summary:

Questions JDH on separation of sexes in trees in New Zealand flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3207

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
1 December 1856
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP4262

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
1 December 1856
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1857). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 1 Dec. 1856, Macassar; communicated by Samuel Stevens]. Zoologist : 15 (179): 5652-5657
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11267

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 111: A75–6
Summary:

Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3208

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
2 December 1856
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1305

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 2 ten Dec. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2224-4a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12680

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Booth
Date:
[2 December 1856]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0101; Reel 1054
Summary:

Compliments JB on publication of 'Trigonometry of the Parabola.' Recalls JH's papers on catenaries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2010

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11664

From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.29
Summary:

Sends another pamphlet on the gold question. On the last page he will find JM has adopted JH's suggestion, though he does not give the source. Thinks that these suggestions should prove useful to France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1306

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
4th. Dec. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/634; MS JT/1/HTYP/484-4a, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2011

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is glad WBT is willing to describe the poultry CD can acquire. Sir James Brooke promises Borneo fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11176

From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.66
Summary:

Has received news of a cargo of cryolite from Greenland. Outlines the various possibilities of using it for the manufacture of chemicals and glass. Sends his method of manufacturing aluminium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2121

From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.368
Summary:

Needs advice concerning Egyptian money. Proposes coining money there as a solution to some of the problems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2012

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 6 December 1856, p. 806
Summary:

CD is collecting all the evidence he can on natural crossing of varieties of plants. Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle to give evidence "showing either that Leguminous crops, when grown close together do sometimes cross or on the other hand that they may invariably be grown close together without any chance of deterioration".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3209

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 December 1856
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7656, F22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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