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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph John Jenkins
Date:
10 April 1858
Source of text:
RI MS F1 A26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[10 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.229
Summary:
Comments on wind and current charts JH has received from RF.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 April 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Duffy
Date:
14 April 1858
Source of text:
No. 1972, 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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD will go over his pigeon MS and then dispose of all his birds. Has Burmese fowls’ skins if WBT is interested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
15 April 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 177
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[15 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 24a
Summary:
A set of questions CD prepared for his meeting with WHM to discuss the geometry of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.1; Reel 1093
Summary:
Replies to specific requests by committee for summary of benefits from research in terrestrial magnetism and meteorology and for ES's opinion on continuance of observatories. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 112a)
Summary:
Asks WDF for facts about stripes in horses and ponies.
Health has been very bad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
16 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
Is much obliged and honoured by the Diploma of the Geographical Society of Vienna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Duffy
Date:
17 April 1858
Source of text:
No. 2093, unit 4, VPRS 963 register of correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 17th 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/241, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1858
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:
Bees’ cells; GRW thinks hexagonal shape is accidental. Encloses notes on cells of Icaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 20–4
Summary:
[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
18 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Thanks LJ for his MS [of "Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5].
Will read it at his hydropathic establishment [Moor Park], where he is going for a rest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
18 April 1858
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Charles Beaumont Phipps
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 April 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
T. C. Eyton
Date:
20 April 1858
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library B EY83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ernst Becker
Date:
20 April 1858
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 398-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 20th 1858.
Source of text:
HP 8:35, IC
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project