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DCP-LETT-2062

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
10 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:

Asks RP’s help in procuring a specimen of a real Irish rabbit, L. veomicule [Lepus vermicula]?.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4192

From:
Samuel Tyler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.455
Summary:

Informs JH that he wrote a book on Baconian philosophy inspired by JH's Prelim. Discourse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-03-10

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 March 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/705, unit 2, p. 228, VPRS 975/P1 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4746

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
10 March 1857
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1857). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 10 March 1857, Dobbo, Aru Islands, and 15 May, Dobbo; to Samuel Stevens and communicated by him to the ESL meeting of 5 Oct. 1857]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1856-1857 : 91-93
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2063

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1857
Source of text:
DAR 181: 35
Summary:

HCW is trying to define what CD means by "variable" genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000191

From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
11 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/37, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday3249

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
11 March 1857
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1017

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
M. T. Masters
Date:
12 March 1857
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2064

From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 238
Summary:

Comments on transport of ducks to Jamaica by hurricanes,

fish feeding on seeds,

and sterility of birds in captivity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1352

From:
Johns Steven Henslow
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 March 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/79; MS JT/1/TYP/2/490, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-57-03-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
13 March 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, bound between letters 158 & 159
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1353

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Auguste de la Rive
Date:
13th, March, 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/347, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1354

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Unidentified
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/7/396-8; MS JT/2/13c/918-19, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2065

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 Mar 1857
Source of text:
DAR 181: 36
Summary:

Describes problems of classifying species in highly variable genera. Lists highly variable genera. Comments on the list of Asa Gray. Says species may be made to appear more or less variable according to whether a genus is divided into few or many species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3250

From:
William Henry Adcock
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 March 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3251

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 March 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3252

From:
Ernst Becker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 193
Summary:

Separation of sexes in trees [U. S.].

Do plants offer positive evidence for "continuous land" theory?

Protean genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000194

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Richardson
Date:
15 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/40, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel2370

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.191
Summary:

Writing article [for Encyclopaedia Britannica] on meteorology. Asks questions regarding work of [H. W.] Dove and [Thomas?] Taylor regarding cyclone and storm theory. Discusses barometric fluctuation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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