From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 26. 58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/32; MS JT/1/TYP/3/1019, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.3; Reel 1093
Summary:
ES's paper on magnetic observatories in colonies is same as 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Publisher has delayed [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of vol. 4 of Cosmos; please send JH's copy of 'Editor's Notes' to other members of magnetic committee. J. B. Biot intentionally subordinated English pendulum experiments to French experiments, and Alexander von Humboldt was misled.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
27 April 1858
Source of text:
E58/3599, 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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
27 April 1858
Source of text:
E58/3607, 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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
27 April 1858
Source of text:
E58/3606, 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
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Beaumont Phipps
Date:
27 April 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 34
Summary:
CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Returns MS [of "Variation of species"]; several facts were new to him, especially interested in wagtails.
Wishes he could swallow Florent Prévost on sparrows ["Du régime alimentaire des oiseaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 46 (1858): 136–8].
LJ’s facts seem to bear out CD’s conclusion that secondary sexual characters were most variable of all.
Explains how he intends to deal with variation, and general facts in natural history in the light of species theory. Can only afford one chapter on variation in nature. It seems more important to make out variation in domestic animals.
Asks for facts on birds’ nests for his chapter on instincts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[28 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.230
Summary:
Must hold to 1/290 as measure of ellipticity. Committee agrees to recommend continuance of magnetic observations if JH will continue to do what he has done in the past.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 313
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Daniel Bunce
Date:
30 April 1858
Source of text:
MS MS SEQUENCE, Australian Box 4/1, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Harriet Jane or Julia Moore
Date:
Friday evg
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1090; MS JT/1/TYP/3/862/1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 April 1858
Source of text:
No. 58/1202, unit 1, p. 150, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project