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Herschel14413

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends proofs of editor's notes from vol. 4 of [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Assumes that JH and magnetic committee members all have copies of 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Managed to clear up 'mystification' in J. B. Biot's account of pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-04-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
21 April 1858
Source of text:
F58/3373, 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

Tyndall1510

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday 21st. April / 58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/892, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1511

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
HP 8:34, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2260

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[21 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

"Excessively" interested in theory of bees’ cell formation.

Fears few of his pigeons will be of any use to WBT.

Hopes WBT will describe foreign poultry breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-502

From:
Henry Philpott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 261
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1512

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/9/2899, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10563

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:

Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8165

From:
Joseph Wolff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.432
Summary:

After JW's 1843-45 mission to find Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly in Bukhara [Uzbek], JW was given poor parish in Dorsetshire. Attempting to raise £1,000 for new church and school. Would JH contribute?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-503

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 312
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel3114

From:
Andres Poey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.171
Summary:

Has read with much pleasure JH's dissertation on meteorology published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests an English version. Sends several memoires on meteorology. Regrets not being able to send a complete set. Asks JH to send other works for the Observatory of Havana.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-504

From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 141
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FVM-58-04-24

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 April 1858
Source of text:
E2, no. 839, unit 2, pp. 467-8, VPRS 1187 outward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1513

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 24 '58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/614, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 33
Summary:

Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.

Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.

Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 24
Summary:

Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2263

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 232
Summary:

Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.

Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2262

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151)
Summary:

Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.

Discusses migration of plants and animals.

A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE522

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
26 Apr 1858
Source of text:
126, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday3419

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Frederick Winslow
Date:
26 April 1858
Source of text:
Nantucket Historical Association Research Library, MS 166/3/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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