From:
Mary Anne Coxe
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday 9th October
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/276, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[19 October 1858]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20796 (C: RS:HS 23.244)
Summary:
Discusses various arrangements of the chemical elements, including those of [J. P.] Cooke and [John] Mercer. Asks WW about capillary action.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 197
Summary:
Further answers on his seed lot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 250
Summary:
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
20 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Asks about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Skeffington Poole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
22 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Asks supplementary questions about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 243)
Summary:
CD’s reasons for not signing the memorial requesting removal of natural history exhibits from British Museum. Less sure about moving botanical specimens to Kew. His notion of museum organisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Skeffington Poole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1858
Source of text:
Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Further information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.308
Summary:
Letter and bottle of solution arrived safely. His latest photographic experiments. Is pleased to hear that JH approves of his efforts to chronicle photographic experiments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1858]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.4; Reel 10
Summary:
Invites remarks from JH. Except for W. H. F. Talbot's 'new discovery,' the subject of copying paintings draws the most attention from readers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[24 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS MC.5.364
Summary:
Regarding report on magnetic observatories to be laid before R.S.L. president and council.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.154
Summary:
Her daughter is shortly to be married to Charles Norman. News of the defects of vision in her children and her anxieties regarding it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry James
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.275
Summary:
Sends a list of the principal mountains in the United Kingdom and their altitudes. Has just returned from a tour in Ireland and Scotland; otherwise he would have replied earlier.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
[27 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for the information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 246)
Summary:
Memorial concerning British Museum collection. CD opposes removing the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[30 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A29–30
Summary:
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Anne Coxe
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Saturday | October 30th. (1858)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/277, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday morning
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16a/-, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William J. Hooker
Date:
[31 October 1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:
Please distinguish between the genus Wellingtonia and the genus Sequoia.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project