From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 251
Summary:
CD declines to write Lyell éloge [for Copley Medal] because of his ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
23rd. Nov. 1858
Source of text:
RR/3/203 Tyndall 23 November 1858, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Pearson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 77: 148
Summary:
Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.239 (C: RS:HS 23.248 & C: RGO 6.694.519)
Summary:
Giving reply for GA to send to Toronto. Is grieved to hear of Edward Sabine's illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[23 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.195 & 23.247
Summary:
Has not read article on binocular vision. Gives his views on this subject. Sends a copy of a paper he read at Leeds on visual impressions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[23 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.154 (C: RS:HS 23.246)
Summary:
Urges renewal of high balloon ascents with periodic observations both to further knowledge of law of decrement of temperature and pressure and for 'ulterior investigations.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project