From:
Anna Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday 12th April | /57
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/124; MS JT/1/HTYP/496, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 192
Summary:
Thanks JDH for response on variation. Studying variations that seem correlated with environment, e.g., north vs south, ascending mountains.
CD’s weed garden: observations on slugs killing seedlings.
Seed-salting. One-seventh of the plants of any country could be transported 924 miles by sea and would germinate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Anne Coxe
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 12th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/1/273, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[12 April 1857]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20792 (C: RS:HS 23.196)
Summary:
Looking forward to a visit from WW. Glad to hear that WW is editing Richard Jones's unpublished works. Sad to hear that George Peacock is seriously ill. Comments negatively on a book by Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Apr 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 139
Summary:
Lists groups of insects absent from the Madeiran fauna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project