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FVM-58-08-05

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 August 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a copy of this letter see No. 1712, unit 3, p. 203, VPRS 1187, PROV
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-58-08-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
6 August 1858
Source of text:
G58/6874, 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

Herschel7087

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.313
Summary:

Has not heard from him for a long time. Hopes all is well. Elizabeth Baily has had a stroke but is slowly mending. Arthur Baily has committed suicide. His own wife and children are at the seaside. Hopes JH or one of his daughters will write soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12818

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[8 August 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0224; Reel 1054
Summary:

R.S.L. committee for considering continuance of magnetic observations has recommended that hourly observations be carried out at Falkland Islands, Newfoundland, and Vancouver Island. Alternate stations are Ceylon and Bermuda. Will not print all observations. Hopes colonial governments will participate. JH and William Whewell will be at [B.A.A.S. meeting in] Leeds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13523

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[8 August 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0755.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

R.S.L. committee recommends continuing three magnetic observatories at Falkland Islands, Newfoundland, and Vancouver Island.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3496

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Scrope Ayrton
Date:
9 August 1858
Source of text:
Mr and Mrs Aida
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-58-08-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
10 August 1858
Source of text:
G58/6952, 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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FVM-58-08-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
10 August 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 184
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1541

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1858 August 10
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/35; MS JT/1/TYP/1/25, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2318

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 245
Summary:

Thanks JDH for stylistic corrections on MS of large and small genera.

Observations, while walking along headlands, on thistle-down blown out to sea and then blown inland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3497a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
10 August 1858
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3497

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 August 1858
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4147
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1542

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 Aug 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4147; 5:3497, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3498

From:
George Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 August 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/90.13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a)
Summary:

Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.

Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2322

From:
Charles Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1858
Source of text:
DAR 171: 232
Summary:

Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3500

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1858
Source of text:
RGO 6/377, f.248
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1543

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Auguste de la Rive
Date:
12th. Aug. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/373; MS JT/1/TYP/1/357, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1544

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
13th. Aug. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/514, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3499

From:
William Edward Fitzmaurice
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/90.15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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