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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
26 October 1858
Source of text:
G58/8984, 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
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
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From:
Alfred Austin
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 October 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2/3/7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday 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
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
29 October 1858
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: Add. 7339/236
- Wallace, A. R. (1859). [Extract from letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 29 Oct. 1858, Batchian, Moluccas; to Samuel Stevens and communicated by him to the ESL meeting of 7 March 1859]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London: 1858-1859: 61
- Wallace, A. R. (1859). [Extract from letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 29 Oct. 1858, Batchian, Moluccas; to Samuel Stevens and read by him at the ZSL meeting of 22 March 1859]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 27: 129
Summary:
Talks of collecting beetles and birds (some new species) at the Kaisal Islands. 20 new species of Loyrcorus and several species of the genus Serixia. Discovered a new bird of paradise (new genus). Surprised to find it so far out. Mentions that the essay he sent to Darwin on "Varieties" has been read out alongside Darwin's at the Linnean; asks if they are published can Stevens obtain a few copies and send them to ARW's friends.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir B. Brodie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 October 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 37
Summary:
Thanks JSH for sending American lily roots as a companion to white lilies sent previously. Hopes that JSH will visit him at his estate at Broome Park, Surrey, as he is attending examinations at London University.
Discusses the question of church rates payments and a paper on the subject by JSH. Discusses difficulty of paying them if a tenant refuses as other landlords would see this as a bad example. Also discusses landlords making the payment and adding the amount to the rent on new leases.
Contributor:
Henslow 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