From:
Academie der Naturforscher
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 September 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3rd, Sep, 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2549-50, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sept. 3d.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/194; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1918, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sepr. 3rd. 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/518; MS JT/1/TYP/9/2883-4; HP 8:29, RI; IC
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (48)
Summary:
Encloses an abstract of his ideas on natural selection and the principle of divergence; the "means by which nature makes her species".
Discusses varieties and close species in large and small genera, finding some data from AG in conflict with his expectations.
Has been observing the action of bees in fertilising kidney beans and Lobelia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5 Sep 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4143; 5:3333, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2551, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 209
Summary:
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.354
Summary:
Has received the letter and invitation. Will travel to Etchingham station and walk to Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean B. L. Foucault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.377
Summary:
Is honored by his kind invitation to visit him, which he hopes to accept. Has great respect for JH's work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[7 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS RR.3.251
Summary:
Is returning C. P. Smyth's paper ['Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856,' [R.S.P.T., 148, 165-], believing it now 'unobjectionable for publication.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum
Date:
8 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 200–202 )
Summary:
CD acknowledges honour of his election to the Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Tuesday evg.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1193; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1926, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sepr 9th 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/235, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
10 September 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.151, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 17
Summary:
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a
Summary:
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
12th Sept. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/641; MS JT/1/HTYP/502, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
14 (1857), pp. 241 - 60, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
15 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 137)
Summary:
Thanks for three last lectures and the account of cirripedes.
Difficulty of classifying the higher groups.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project