From:
W. G. Penny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.153
Summary:
Sends a copy of his Astronomical Investigations. Claims there is an 'inequality in the motions of Mars and the Earth.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 January 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Edward Ryan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.463
Summary:
Sends information concerning India in response to letter of JH's son. [Sir Charles Edward] Trevelyan has printed such information occasionally. Many do not see the importance of India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 115
Summary:
Sexes of algae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48)
Summary:
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
6 January 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/95/2, 4/3351 letters received, Colonial Secretary's Department, Archives Authority of New South Wales, Sydney.For a copy of this letter also in M's hand see MS Q426, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. There are some minor differences in punctuation and words between the two versions
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6th. Jan.
Source of text:
HP 8:25; MS JT/1/TYP/9/2877, IC; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
W. B. Clegram
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
6 January [1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.349
Summary:
J. C. Symons is spreading locally false theories about the rotation of the moon. Would like JH's views on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Harvey
Date:
7 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1)
Summary:
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Jan 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/3/901, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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
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From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 January 1857
Source of text:
MS Q429 outward letter copy book, p. 166, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
11 January 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 155
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
14 January 1857
Source of text:
MS Q442 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Author
Correspondent
Document type
Repository
Contributor
- Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project9
- Brigitte Stenhouse9
- Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project140
- Darwin Correspondence Project183
- Darwin Family Letters6
- Faraday Project164
- Henslow Correspondence Project43
- Hooker Project11
- John Herschel Project155
- Royal Society13
- The Linnean Society of London1
- Tyndall Project165