From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
23 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sends cheque for subscription [£20].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
25 February 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 140
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feby. 25th. | 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/164; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1899, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Date:
25 February 1857
Source of text:
RSC MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Pasley
Date:
26 February 1857
Source of text:
No. 1163, unit 3, p. 81, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 26/57.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1347-8, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Johann Ferdinand Mertens
To:
Eduard & Clara Wehl, Bertha & George Doughty
Date:
26 February 1857
Source of text:
RB MS M106, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 287
Summary:
The species of Mollusca at Mauritius are almost all different from those of surrounding islands, which confirms the belief that the islands were elevated from the ocean rather than separated from the continent by volcanic action.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michel Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.252
Summary:
Has received the agreement noted on his ticket of 14 Feb.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[after 28 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 7 March 1857, p. 155
Summary:
Reports that he fertilised a single pale red carnation with the pollen of a crimson Spanish pink, and a Spanish pink with the pollen of the same carnation. He got seed from both crosses and raised many seedlings. There was no difference between the seedlings from reciprocal crosses, not one plant set a single seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project