From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Saturday morning
Source of text:
HP 8:30, IC
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
24 October 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/77
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[24 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.211
Summary:
Begs not to be chairman of the proposed Magnetic Conference Committee [see HL's 1857-10-19], but would serve on the committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Woodbine Parish
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.134
Summary:
Places JH's name in a volume containing an account of the meteorite that struck ground [in North America]. WP also includes a description of the coca trees of Peru [in which JH took an interest].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 October 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 171
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Thomas Glover
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1857
Source of text:
DAR 165: 58
Summary:
Describes his work, which demonstrates that hybrids of Cactus are fertile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Heinrich Spitta
To:
the Medical Faculty, Universität Rostock
Date:
26 October 1857
Source of text:
Medizinische Fakultät, Promotionsakte Ferdinand Müller, Universitätsarchiv, Rostock
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1857
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 19 (EH 88206071)
Summary:
Writes concerning library books requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margery Ann Reid
Date:
28 October 1857
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
the Medical Faculty, Universität Rostock
To:
the Department for Educational Affairs, Schwerin
Date:
28 October 1857
Source of text:
Medizinische Fakultät, Promotionsakte Ferdinand Müller, Universitätsarchiv, Rostock
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 18
Summary:
Reports progress of work on the new rooms [at Down].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 19
Summary:
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jules Antoine Regnauld
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 October 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.150
Summary:
Was indebted to JH for the names of the satellites of Uranus. Will find details of his observations in the R.A.S.M.N. Gives volumes. Is thinking of returning to Malta and erect a larger telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
30 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 104)
Summary:
Has come to think his brains were not made for thinking – he immediately feels better when at Moor Park.
News of his family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carlo Matteucci
Date:
30 October 1857
Source of text:
Bianchi (1874), 220
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
James Brooke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 October 1857
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/32
- Wallace, A. R. (1869). In: The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, With Studies of Man and Nature. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan & Co. [p. 98]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Isaac Featherston
Date:
31 October 1857
Source of text:
WP/5/1 letter register, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
To:
the Medical Faculty, Universität Rostock
Date:
31 October 1857
Source of text:
Medizinische Fakultät, Promotionsakte Ferdinand Müller, Universitätsarchiv, Rostock
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
31 Oct. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/485, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project