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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
23 January 1857
Source of text:
UB MS NS 428
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 January 1857
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 January 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 234
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 January 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 309(i) & (ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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
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
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
29 January 1857
Source of text:
SAU MS JDF 1857/14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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
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From:
William Gregory
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 January 1857
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
James Forrest
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 January 1857
Source of text:
ICE MS letter copy book, p.254
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 January 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/78
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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