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DCP-LETT-2220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Summary:

CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2221

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 160: 202
Summary:

Gives some observations on birds; has forwarded a box of specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4427

From:
David Rawson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1858]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Has read JH's article 'with great pleasure.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-02-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edmund FitzGibbon
Date:
22 February 1858
Source of text:
Unit 10, VPRS 3622 inward miscellaneous correspondence, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2219

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 111)
Summary:

Thanks for Hewitson [British oology].

Has found more variability in birds’ nests than he expected.

Interested in WDF’s note about turkey terrified by a frog [see Natural selection, p. 488 n.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3399

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 February 1858
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4082-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1497

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 Feb 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4082-3; 5:3399, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10828

From:
Joseph Henry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.180
Summary:

Is grateful for the encouragement he has given L. W. Me[e]ch. This Institution is endeavoring to collect information on the climate of North America and he is entering the field of meteorology for the first time. Sends some papers and would be glad of his comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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