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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
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Contributor:
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]
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Contributor:
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]
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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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project