From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 16 57
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/612, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17–23 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 194
Summary:
Sending more Candolle volumes for survey of species with well-marked varieties.
Has begun his introduction [to Flora Tasmaniae]; will not make generalisations.
J. D. Dana’s pamphlet too metaphysical for JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
17 December 1857
Source of text:
No. 6436, unit 3, p. 275, 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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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julian Tenison Woods
Date:
17 December 1857
Source of text:
Archives, Sisters of St Joseph, Perthville, NSW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 105)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his letter about a rabbit breed that he thinks is the Himalaya. He is particularly glad to hear of it because it breeds so true.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday night.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1904, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4167; 6:4732u, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a)
Summary:
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 196
Summary:
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
18th Dec. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1130; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1927, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 December 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
19 December 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.145, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decr 19th 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/237, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
William and Joseph Hooker
To:
Henry Labouchere
Date:
19 December 1857
Source of text:
PRO, CO/201/500 (Colonial Office, NSW original Correspondence, Offices, 1857) ff. 3380-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
W. J. Hooker
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 December 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:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
20 December 1857
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1858). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 20 Dec. 1857, Amboyna; communicated by Samuel Stevens]. Zoologist : 16 (191-192): 6120-6124
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A13–14
Summary:
Finds he cannot annotate CD’s list of subspecies and varieties as wanted. Mentions again his difficulties with "species"; he "cannot find the proof of species being definite and immutable whatever they may seem to be at any one time and spot".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lodovico Menin and Giacinto Namias
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 December 1857
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.154
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 December 1857
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 5-8
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 131-133]
- Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 217-219]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 197
Summary:
Replies to more queries about fowl hybrids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project