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DCP-LETT-2344

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

Has read WBT’s interesting communication on bees’ cells [Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7094

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.318
Summary:

JH has turned round his question. Samuel Earnshaw has professed to have integrated the pipe equation. Gives an equation of his own.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-10-18a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 October 1858
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-58-10-18

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1858
Source of text:
No. 2309, unit 3, p. 371, 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
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Faraday3521

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests
Date:
18 October 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2/3/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-58-10-18b

From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1858
Source of text:
No. 58/3290, unit 2, p. 126, 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

Tyndall1566

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
19th Oct. 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/647; MS JT/1/HTYP/515-16, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1567

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

Herschel9203

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

DCP-LETT-2346

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
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FVM-58-10-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
20 October 1858
Source of text:
G58/8808, 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

DCP-LETT-2345

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
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DCP-LETT-2346F

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

DCP-LETT-2346G

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
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FVM-58-10-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
22 October 1858
Source of text:
A251 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2346H

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

DCP-LETT-2347

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

DCP-LETT-2347F

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

Herschel6565

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

Herschel7683

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
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