From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 day of Jany 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/115; MS JT/1/TYP/3/982-3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
8 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Dr Heather Whitney (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W. B. Clegram
Date:
[8 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.350 & 23.186
Summary:
Regrets that he thinks the faith of the public in astronomy should be shaken by the errors of J. C. Symons. Gives the theory of the rotation of the moon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 January
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/3/902, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 237
Summary:
Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.
Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.
A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.
Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Janry 11th 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/485-6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Richard Dawes
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/319, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[14 January 1857]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 55a (C: RS:HS 23.187)
Summary:
Thanks JF for his dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science. Discusses health of JF and JH. Suggests that some actinometric measurements are not as seriously flawed as at first thought [see JH's 1847-3-1].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Plateau
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15 Janvier 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/88, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.293
Summary:
Thanks for the magic square, which he is now returning. Seems no end to the possibilities of such squares.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
16th Dec Jan. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/636, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 394
Summary:
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[16 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.152 (C: RS:HS 23.188)
Summary:
Interprets [John] Dalton's theory of the nonelasticity of gas particles, expressing its limitations, particularly in regard to a Mr. Paton's paper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 188
Summary:
CD will advise W. F. Daniell on collecting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939)
Summary:
Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.
CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary E. Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/61; MS JT/1/TYP/3/844, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 189
Summary:
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 20 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 190
Summary:
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 22/57
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/46, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.307
Summary:
About the state of GP's health, and plans for a vacation
Contributor:
John Herschel Project