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FVM-58-02-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
20 February 1858
Source of text:
E58/1646, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1495

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
20th. Feb. 1858
Source of text:
RR/3/197 Tyndall 20 February 1858, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3398

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 February 1858
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4145-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1496

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Feb 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4145-6; 5:3398, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
21 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 279)
Summary:

Thanks LA for presentation copy of Contributions [to the natural history of the United States of America, vol. 1, pt 1: Essay on classification, and vol. 1, pt 2: North American Testudinata (1857)]. Flattered; CD sees there is much of highest interest to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (21)
Summary:

Asks whether botanists tend to record varieties more carefully in large genera or small genera.

Wants information on the ranges of varieties of a species compared to the range of the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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

DCP-LETT-2222

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 224
Summary:

Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.

Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.

H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].

Working on bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2223

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A21–2
Summary:

Believes that botanists tend to mark more varieties in large than in small genera, but notes that where many varieties of a species exist these varieties may well be passed over, whereas similar varieties of another species which are fewer in number may well be recorded.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-58-02-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
24 February 1858
Source of text:
No. 1008, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2224

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 107)
Summary:

Congratulations on birth of THH’s daughter [Jessie].

On aboriginal dun colour of horses.

Examples of inaccuracies and perpetuation of errors [on hybrids] by "compilers, of which I am one".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2225

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25] Feb 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 115a–d
Summary:

Botanical practice can confuse CD’s compilations. Many small genera would have been species had the whole natural order [family] been known.

JDH’s low opinion of Buckle;

high opinion of Mrs Farrer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3471

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[25 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS Sa.666
Summary:

Is glad to sign certificate. Complains about tendency of Alexander von Humboldt, whose volume Mrs. Sabine is translating, to ignore other scientists' work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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