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DCP-LETT-2048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Would welcome eggs of any rumpless fowl so that he can investigate how early in development rudimentary organs are rudimentary.

Has not noticed much difference between skeletons of ducks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2048F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernard Peirce Brent
Date:
7 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Richard Brent (private collection)
Summary:

Sympathises with Brent’s legal difficulties. Declines offer of a cock silk fowl, but accepts offer of a German old fashioned pouter pigeon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-472

From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 February 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 139
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-471

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 February 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 263
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10600

From:
William Hopkins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.478
Summary:

Has been absent from home, which accounts for his belated reply. Comments on JH's difficulties in relation to W. H. Hopkins's memoir on the external temperature of the earth. JH's son is progressing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7059

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.294
Summary:

JH has got hold of the explanation about central forces. Need not worry about Elizabeth Baily; he will see to that. Do not reject any letters; they may be important in the future. Gives one of his own theorems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 110)
Summary:

Birth of his sixth son [C. W. Darwin]. It is dreadful "to think of all the sendings to school and the professions afterwards".

CD is not well but has not the courage for water-cure again; trying mineral acids.

Working hard on the book [Natural selection]; is overwhelmed with riches in facts and interested in way facts fall into groups.

To his surprise [Helix pomatia] has withstood 14 days in salt water.

Pigeons’ skins come in from all parts of the world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3234

From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 February 1857
Source of text:
UB MS NS 429
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1108

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
9 February 1857
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1333

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
9th Feb. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/172, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-1109

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
10 February 1857
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1334

From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 February 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/484, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2052

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
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DCP-LETT-2050

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

Tyndall1335

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
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Faraday3235

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

DCP-LETT-2051

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
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Faraday3236

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
12 February 1857
Source of text:
SAU MS JDF 1857/19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2053

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 165: 96
Summary:

Discusses the ranges of alpine species in U. S. and considers the possible migration routes of such species from Europe.

Lists those U. S. genera which he considers protean and describes the U. S. character of some genera which are protean in Europe.

Describes how he distinguishes introduced and aboriginal stocks of the same species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1337

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1896, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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