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FL-0386

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. D.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0387

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-57-02-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Pasley
Date:
1 February 1857
Source of text:
No. 652, unit 3, p. 62, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-57-02-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
1 February 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 157
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel7060

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1857-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.190
Summary:

Offers AD a puzzle and JH's solution to AD's problem about a body revolving in the evolute of an ellipse. On sending Francis Baily's correspondence to Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3237

From:
William Bird Herapath
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
February 1857
Source of text:
RS MS MC 5.311
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4564

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.303
Summary:

Thanks JH for discovering an important error in a work WS asked him to proof read. Asks JH about a variable in Canis Minor over which there is some debate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Secretary Académie des sciences
Date:
[2 February 1857]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Thanks for having sent various publications; believes that the Academy's intention has been to send JH complete series; states which issues JH has not received.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2045

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 104)
Summary:

Thanks THH for his response on glacial movement. Hopes Tyndall will experiment on broken ice and explain how two pieces of ice can freeze together.

Sorry to hear of THH’s row with Richard Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3231

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
3 February 1857
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1330

From:
Charles Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 4th
Source of text:
vol. 6; MS JT/1/TYP/9/2801, Correspondence of Charles Darwin; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3232

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
4 February 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/78
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1331

From:
Oscar Schulze
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
den 4ten Febr. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/59, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001476

From:
William Sharpey
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
4 February 1857
Source of text:
MM/19/75, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-2046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 2 (EH 88205940)
Summary:

CD is "as ignorant of mechanics as a pig", but glaciers have interested him greatly. Hopes to hear that JT’s experiments with ice will explain the freezing together of ice below the freezing point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2047

From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 236
Summary:

The variations of Peronea caused A. H. Haworth and J. F. Stephens to create 30 or 40 species based on colour and markings. HD was first to be convinced these would be reduced to two.

Discusses species that closely resemble one another;

cites species that differ in variation in different localities;

in some double-brooded species the broods differ markedly in size and colour.

Encloses his list of varieties of Peronea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3233

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomas Brande
Date:
5 February 1857
Source of text:
BUL Newell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1332

From:
Cesar-Mansuete Despretz
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/126, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel25

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1857]
Source of text:
RGO 6.377.429
Summary:

Writes to arrange a visit to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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