From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1896, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Walter Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 16th.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1896, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.149)
Summary:
Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 14
Summary:
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1189; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2113, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Wednesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1897, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has some fowls from Sir James Brooke, which WBT might like to display at Zoological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19 Fevrier 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/62, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 Feb 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/1; MS JT/1/TYP/1/136, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 February 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/471-2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
22 Feb 1857
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 255
Summary:
Sends news of his family, Sulivan, and FitzRoy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 101–2)
Summary:
Helix pomatia is quite healthy after 20 days’ submersion in salt water.
On peas, the evidence is on WDF’s side, but CD cannot see how they can avoid being crossed.
He is working hard, wishes he "could set less value on the bauble fame"; would work as hard, but with less gusto, if he knew his book would be published forever anonymously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
23 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sends cheque for subscription [£20].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feby. 25th. | 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/164; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1899, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 26/57.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1347-8, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 287
Summary:
The species of Mollusca at Mauritius are almost all different from those of surrounding islands, which confirms the belief that the islands were elevated from the ocean rather than separated from the continent by volcanic action.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michel Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.252
Summary:
Has received the agreement noted on his ticket of 14 Feb.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[after 28 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 7 March 1857, p. 155
Summary:
Reports that he fertilised a single pale red carnation with the pollen of a crimson Spanish pink, and a Spanish pink with the pollen of the same carnation. He got seed from both crosses and raised many seedlings. There was no difference between the seedlings from reciprocal crosses, not one plant set a single seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
?-3-1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
2nd. March 1857
Source of text:
HS 17.385, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project