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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Date:
14 January 1857
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Toynbee
Date:
14 January 1857
Source of text:
Toynbee, G. (1910), 80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday 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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
15 January 1857
Source of text:
MS Q426 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a copy of the above letter see No. 57/480, 4/3351 letters received, Colonial Secretary's Department, Archives Authority of New South Wales, Sydney. See also M to A. Gregory, 14 January 1857
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
15 January 1857
Source of text:
No. 459, vol. 1857 V, VPRS 1168 inwards correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.This letter was also registered in the Public Works Department as No. 420, unit 3, p. 54, VPRS 963, PROV
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Rennie
Date:
17 January 1857
Source of text:
NLS MS 19938/123
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday 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:
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Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
19 January 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 156
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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
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From:
Henry Hart Milman
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 January 1857
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 January 1857
Source of text:
No. 106, unit 1, p. 36, VPRS 1187.outward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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
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- John Herschel Project155
- Royal Society13
- The Linnean Society of London1
- Tyndall Project165