From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 21
Summary:
Is trying to find a tutor for WED.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 16: 223
Summary:
He was unaware that varieties occurred proportionately more in large genera.
Recommends a work [Leonard Gyllenhaal, Insecta Suecica, 4 vols. (1808–27)] for tabulating varieties.
Lists "close geographical representatives of Europaean species" based on the species numbers [in T. V. Wollaston, Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of Madeira (1857)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
1 Nov 1857
Source of text:
120, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Michel Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.254
Summary:
Has finished his essay and returns to the subject of gold. Cites articles.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.14
Summary:
Is willing to have his review sent on to the author, [C. P.] Smyth; asks GS to send the R.S.L.'s copy of Keith Johnson's Physical Atlas to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.151 & 23.212
Summary:
Wishes all success to his proposed visit to Malta. Has been able to find the volumes of R.A.S.M.N. Comments on WL's system of levers for his telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
2 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/42)
Summary:
Has TCE observed whether hybrids of Chinese and common forms [of geese] were wilder, or less tame, than both parents?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
2 November 1857
Source of text:
No. 5647, unit 3, p. 245, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.328
Summary:
Regarding a suitable engraving of William Herschel to be added to William Walker's engraving of a meeting at the Royal Institution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Walter Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
November 3rd 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1921, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 192
Summary:
Responds to CD’s article on kidney beans [Collected papers 1: 275–7]. Sends beans as evidence of crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julian Tenison Woods
Date:
4 November 1857
Source of text:
Archives, Sisters of St Joseph, Perthville, NSW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Elizabeth Cooke
Date:
4 November 1857
Source of text:
UU EW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Norton Shaw
Date:
5 November 1857
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society London, Archives, correspondence file 1857, Mueller, F
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 311
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 6
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/42; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1310, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
Nov. 7. 1857
Source of text:
MSS.Add.7655/II/13; Add.7655/II/221, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
7 November 1857
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7655/II/11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
the Universität Rostock
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 November 1857
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[1857-11-8 or earlie
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Has heard WS is publishing an English translation of François Arago's astronomical writings. Urges against including Arago's lectures if the Italian translation is indicative of their level of accuracy. Lists numerous errors in that edition. [Marked 'not sent.' Note added to CDraft (RS:HS 25.13.13) states: 'A letter differently worded but noting some of these points, but not all (for particular reasons) if I remember right was sent.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project