From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
16 Sep 1857
Source of text:
116, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 September 1857
Source of text:
UB MS NS 431
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julian Tenison Woods
Date:
17 September 1857
Source of text:
Archives, Sisters of St Joseph, Perthville, NSW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[17 September 1857]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20799 (C: RS:HS 23.205)
Summary:
Thanks WW for letters. Has been visited by [ [J. B. L.] Foucault; impressed by Foucault's instruments. Notes large number of sunspots.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Walter Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
xvii Sep: mdcccLvii
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1917, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 September 1857
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
L. A. Reeve
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 September 1857
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Henry Archer
Date:
21 September 1857
Source of text:
2/137/1, Archer papers, University of Melbourne Archives
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
23 Sept [1857-9]
Source of text:
Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (dealers) (4 February 2009)
Summary:
The returned gloves are similar to some he has already, and he would prefer a pair with stiffer bristles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir H. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 September 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 46
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[25? September 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Gustav Wiedemann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/39, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A58–9
Summary:
Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. H. Symons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.254
Summary:
Will send JS's treatise; wishes could offer something 'more intrinsically valuable' as token of gratitude for everything.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
Sept 25 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 210
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
25 September 1857
Source of text:
UB MS NS 432
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Rutt
Date:
25 September 1857
Source of text:
APS Misc MS Collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert Schlagintweit
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1857
Source of text:
DAR 177: 52 (fragile)
Summary:
Gives CD further details of the fertility of the offspring from cross of a yak and Indian cow, the so-called chooboos, whose fertility he has traced to the seventh generation [see Natural selection, pp. 437–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[25 September 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.206
Summary:
Thanks for photograph of the moon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
26 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 54)
Summary:
Agassiz’s superficiality and wretched reasoning powers. But he stirred up Europe on glaciers. Lyell has been working on their effects – testing work of others.
CD believes "Natural Systems" ought to be simply genealogical. "Time will come when we shall have true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project