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DCP-LETT-2182

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 217
Summary:

Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3363

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 December 1857
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4144
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1462

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Dec 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4144; 5:3363, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-000869

From:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
To:
Lord Wrottesley
Date:
10 December 1857
Source of text:
MM/14/104, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday3364

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margery Ann Reid
Date:
12 December 1857
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2182F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 258–62)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of pigeons, if breeding is successful; hopes to go to poultry show to see them.

Several questions about the Boz or Booz pigeon of Tunis.

If any of EWVH’s birds die and he does not want the skin, perhaps he would send it to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1463

From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Dec. 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/486, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2183

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A11–12
Summary:

Will shortly return CD’s list of varieties of British plants. Discusses the situations in which different varieties of species are often found and the ranges of varieties relative to those of the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681
Summary:

For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3366

From:
Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 December 1857
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.151
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1465

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/16; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1309, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-57-12-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
15 December 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1464

From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday Eve.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2556, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2184F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 263–4)
Summary:

Will not accept invitation to Hastings, or offer to send pigeons to Down.

Is looking forward to seeing pigeons at Crystal Palace poultry show.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3365

From:
William Bowman
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 December 1857
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2186

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 or 17 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 151
Summary:

Returns CD’s lists [sent with 2184]. Confusion in genera of Silene is great in continental botanic gardens. One would have to know whether C. F. v. Gärtner had the right names for species in his experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1467

From:
George Edmondson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12m0.16--1857
Source of text:
MS JT/5/14/-, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178
Summary:

THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1466

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Kennedy
Date:
16th Dec. 1857
Source of text:
, Alpine Club
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3367

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christopher Hansteen
Date:
16 December 1857
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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