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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 April 1857
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4068-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Saturday, 18th. Apr 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4068-9; 5:3272, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 April 1857?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.120-121, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
19 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for pigeon.

Are there Shetland birds chequered with black marks, as Carl Julian Graba states are in Faeroes [Reise nach Färö (1830)] and Col. King in the Hebrides?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
20 April. | 1857
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.165, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
E. S. Poole
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 April 1857
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Tracts II Botany & Misc.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 April 21
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.164, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22nd. April.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/9/3157; HP 8:282a, RI; IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
François Napoleon Marie Moigno
Date:
22 April 1857
Source of text:
National Maritime Museum MS GAB/5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Anthony Panizzi
Date:
23 April 1857
Source of text:
BM CA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
James Tenant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 258
Summary:

Fish will take both sorts of seeds sent by CD, but will not take oats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall
Date:
[24 April 1857]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

FF having suggested some time ago the publication of a collection of JH's essay, JH now offers to send FF JH's Essays Q.E.R.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 April 1857
Source of text:
Kahlbaum and Darbishire (1899), 282-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Frederick James Furnivall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.387
Summary:

Will be delighted to receive a copy of his collected essays. These are very valuable and enhance his reputation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Glaisher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.129
Summary:

Sending him engraved single copies, also photographic copies of the larger ones. Comments on his researches into snow crystals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 39
Summary:

In reply to CD’s query [see 2072], JDD describes what little is known about the crustacea of the Antarctic and southern lands.

Knows of no species of the cold temperate south identical with those of the cold temperate north.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
27 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence)
Summary:

Asks PHG to conduct an experiment to see if young littoral molluscs will cling to a duck’s foot – CD seeks to explain distribution of molluscs without adopting E. Forbes’s [continental extension] theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
27 April 1857
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 April 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 308
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Arthur Freeling
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 April 1857
Source of text:
GRG 35/20/8, no. 389, letter copy book, p. 164, Surveyor General's Office, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project