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Herschel4509

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.213
Summary:

Pleased that WS included François Arago's lectures in his compilation. Believes the Italian edition could have been better edited. Remarks on the Leviathan problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3354

From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 November 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3355

From:
John Murray
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 November 1857
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12205

From:
William Keith Murray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.62
Summary:

Is pleased that JH approves of the photographs. Previously purchased W. H. Smyth's equatorial, the tube and object-glass made by [Thomas?] Cooke. Had a visit from Smyth recently and he advised WM to prepare a paper for the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-11-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
10 November 1857
Source of text:
No. 5795, unit 3, p. 250, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2167

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 11.2: 65a
Summary:

Sends drawings of two forms of workers of Cryptocerus discocephalus in response to CD’s request for examples of insects whose workers show disparity of form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7074

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.304
Summary:

Has the proofs. Gives some queries concerning them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-11-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
11 November 1857
Source of text:
No. 5825, unit 3, p. 251, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday3356

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
11 November 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/77
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13040

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[11 November 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0453; Reel 1055
Summary:

Sends £100 check for JS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11261

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.152
Summary:

Thanks for his suggestions respecting the mode of observation by collimator; will give it careful consideration. Sends two photographs of the method of mounting his observation tower.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2169

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 14 November 1857, p. 779
Summary:

Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 58)
Summary:

Glad THH has taken up aphid question versus Owen ["On the agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–236].

Fertilisation and inheritance discussed. Speculates that fertilisation may be a mixture rather than a fusion. Can understand in no other way why crossed forms tend to go back to ancestral forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
12 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:

The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

LINNEAN590

From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
The Linnean Society
Date:
12 Nov 1857
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/11/2, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Letter accompanying the nineteen volumes of Sir James Edward Smith's scientific correspondence, in which she stipulates two conditions concerning the volumes: one, that they never be removed from the Linnean Society's rooms for perusal, and second, that should the Society cease to exist the letters not be dispersed but placed in the British Museum with the library of Sir Joseph Banks. Includes envelope.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

Herschel4279

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.305
Summary:

Thanks JH for advice on several persons and for suggestion concerning the Leviathan. Remarks on R. C. Carrington's circumpolar star work. Writes to R.S.L. Council concerning François Arago's nomination for medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7075

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.305
Summary:

S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone) has agreed that the papers be presented to the Crown. Pray let him have his proof as soon as possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-489

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 83
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday3357

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
13 November 1857
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7655/II/14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2171

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 193
Summary:

More on kidney bean crosses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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