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From:
Thomas Mayo Brewer
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
[Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 305, 305/1, 305/2
Summary:

Writes regarding CD’s query on yellow-billed cuckoo and the laying of eggs in other birds’ nests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria
Date:
March 1858
Source of text:
MS 9601 records of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, box 1/1 (a) minute book, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Charles Frederick Winslow
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 March 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
1 March 1858
Source of text:
E58/1877, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.This letter was also also registered in the Public Works Department as No. 1200, unit 4, VPRS 963, PROV
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Humphrey Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0337; Reel 1087
Summary:

Calls attention to vol. 3 of Toronto observations, where Edward Sabine, [T. R.] Robinson, and HL expressed their views on continuing magnetic observations. Emphasizes importance of discovering physical and mathematical laws that govern magnetic phenomena. Sufficient data already exist for this. Recommends continuing hourly observations for five more years at seven foreign observatories (listed). [JH note: Routing slip to B.A.A.S. committee, instructing each member to read and forward HL's recommendations.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
1 Mar 1858
Source of text:
124, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1858-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.227
Summary:

Riddles, Latin nursery rhymes, and an eclipse description.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[March] 1858
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1858). On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type. In: Darwin, C. R. & Wallace, A. R. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology : 3 (9): 45-62 [pp. 53-62]
Summary:

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
March 1858
Source of text:
Anon. (1859). Extracts from correspondence, notices, &c. [Including extracts of letters from Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens dated March & 2 September 1858, Ternate]. Ibis : 1 (1): 111-116 [pp. 112-113]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.306
Summary:

'Making perhaps my last attack' on Gamma Virginis. Night air is increasingly detrimental to health.

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John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
2 March 1858
Source of text:
No. 1080, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
2 March 1858
Source of text:
No. 1081, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
2 March 1858
Source of text:
No. 1136, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.225
Summary:

Wishes to put WS's final version of Gamma Virginis orbit in new edition of his catalogue. Asks questions about Mediterranean.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
2 March 1858
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/42
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418388
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 69-70]
Summary:

Geodephaga species, commenting on notes made by F. Bates in a letter received a month previously; variation of entomological species; species of Catascopus sent to Saunders; habits of Cicindelidae; theory of colours of insect species; planned expedition to northern Celebes; plans to write a Coleoptera Malayana; disgraceful state of current publishing in entomology, comments on particular works.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A146–7
Summary:

States his belief that there is a tendency to note varieties in the larger genera rather than in the very small ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Grant
Date:
[3 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.226
Summary:

About possible changes in the second edition of JH's Outlines Astr. due to the writings of another astronomer, Ignatio Porro.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
4 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21)
Summary:

Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.

Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Booth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.197
Summary:

Requesting JH's support for his application for the position of Professor of Geometry at Gresham College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 236
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project