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Tyndall1323

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Saturday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1257; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1894, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
24 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (MC17: 336)
Summary:

Feels unqualified to offer advice on research by the expedition; he has never attended to natural history of the region. Suggests collecting Carboniferous plants and studying the geographical extension of sea-borne erratic boulders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1322

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
24th. Jan. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/225; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1893, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469)
Summary:

Dining with the Lubbocks.

JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2044

From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 235
Summary:

Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7290

From:
G. F. Daniell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.469
Summary:

Forwarding a copy of a letter written by GD's father in which he quotes from JH's writings. Is grateful for the tribute he paid to his father at the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1324

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
26th January 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/637; MS JT/1/HTYP/488-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel4562

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.301
Summary:

Asks JH to recommend C. P. Smyth for R.S.L. fellowship. Will avoid R.S.L. meetings due to declining health. Considers a second edition of Cycle of Celestial Objects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1325

From:
Jules Lissajous
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
29 Janvier 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/24, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel4107

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[29 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.302 (C: RS:HS 23.189)
Summary:

Agrees to support C. P. Smyth for membership in R.S.L. Objects to C. P. Smyth's statement regarding his discoveries observing at high altitudes. Stresses importance of variable star work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001469

From:
William Sharpey
To:
John Joseph Bennett
Date:
30 January 1857
Source of text:
MM/19/66, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall1329

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/60; MS JT/1/TYP/3/846, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1326

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 31. 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2418-19, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1327

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
31 Januar 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/21, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1328

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/504, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

SOMERVILLE403

From:
Sir Coutts Lindsey
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 Jan 1857
Source of text:
MSL 4 / 112, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel7060

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1857-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.190
Summary:

Offers AD a puzzle and JH's solution to AD's problem about a body revolving in the evolute of an ellipse. On sending Francis Baily's correspondence to Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4564

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.303
Summary:

Thanks JH for discovering an important error in a work WS asked him to proof read. Asks JH about a variable in Canis Minor over which there is some debate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Secretary Académie des sciences
Date:
[2 February 1857]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Thanks for having sent various publications; believes that the Academy's intention has been to send JH complete series; states which issues JH has not received.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2045

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 104)
Summary:

Thanks THH for his response on glacial movement. Hopes Tyndall will experiment on broken ice and explain how two pieces of ice can freeze together.

Sorry to hear of THH’s row with Richard Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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