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WCP1839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 1-4
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 129-131]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 214-217]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Faraday3279

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1862 (489) LIV, pp.2-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7938

From:
John Welsh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.141
Summary:

Cannot answer JH's question about electricity in heavy showers. Observations were discontinued years ago. Refers to Francis Ronalds's past experiments. Cites 1849 B.A.A.S. Rep. for map of storm observations. Notes changes in polarity of electricity during storms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-05-01

From:
the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
RB MSS M200, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-57-05-01a

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/1202, unit 3, p. 14, 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

DCP-LETT-2086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".

On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.

Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 195
Summary:

JDH has shaved the hair off the alpine plant.

CD apologises for his criticism.

Apparent but false relations of plant structure to climate: heath-like foliage of all Cape of Good Hope plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1386

From:
James Prescott Joule
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 2/57
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/137; MS JT/1/TYP/2/661, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1385

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
Saturday | 1857 May 2
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.168, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3280

From:
Josiah Latimer Clark
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 May 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 196
Summary:

JDH’s last letter demolishes woolly alpine plant theory.

Correlation of apetalous flowers and cold climate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1387

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 23rd 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/232; MS JT/1/HTYP/491-2, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1388

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 May 4
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.169, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-57-05-04

From:
George Francis
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 May 1857
Source of text:
Letters of orders &c, 1855-64, Adelaide Botanic Garden
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1389

From:
Henry Matthew Witt
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 4, 1857.
Source of text:
13 (1857), pp. 467-8, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3281

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 May 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9192

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 May 1857]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20793
Summary:

Invites WW to Collingwood, informing him of other visitors coming and new rail schedule.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-05-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
6 May 1857
Source of text:
No. 2405, unit 3, p. 127, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1390

From:
Josiah Latimer Clark
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6th. May 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/222, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP5524

From:
Charles Samuel Pollock Parish
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
6 May 1857
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC56 folio 306
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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