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FVM-57-05-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Arthur Freeling
Date:
12 May 1857
Source of text:
GRG 35/2/345, Surveyor General's Office, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1395

From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2544, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3284

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3285

From:
Robert Lucas Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
12 [May 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Accepts a dozen eggs of rumpless Polands. Having so many enables him to see whether the breed "comes true".

Asks what colour turbits have dark tails – "it is just the class of facts which interest me".

Do fowls when crossed throw odd and unexpected colours like pigeons?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14154

From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0380; Reel 1087
Summary:

Quotes 1682 tract by William Petty advising Marquis of Halifax to employ decimal system of currency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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