From:
Alfred Christy
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 219
Summary:
Sends information on the speed at which his pigeons fly various distances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.145)
Summary:
Discusses a proposed expedition to Australia. Urges collecting and investigating productions of isolated islands. Recommends dredging the sea-bottom.
Mentions keeping Helix pomatia alive in sea-water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oscar Schulze
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
den 11tn Febr. 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/60, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 February 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/79
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD is sending two pairs of Persian fowl, from Hon. C. Murray.
Thanks WBT for various offers: a drake, a young silk fowl, a rumpless chick.
The German pouters are not old-fashioned ones but fancy birds, probably crosses since they do not breed true.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project