Text Online
From:
Charles Frederick Winslow
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 33
Summary:
Discusses matters relating to WED’s first term [at Cambridge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1//1439, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.311
Summary:
Has sent him the abstract on harmony. Further remarks on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 November 1858
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[6 November 1858]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 1 (Nov. 12, 1858), 110
Summary:
Discusses the use of the stereoscope, including stereoscopic views of the moon and sun. Also discusses the appropriate stereoscopic angle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Egan
Date:
8 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.160)
Summary:
Asks about dark stripes on shoulders and legs of Hungarian horses. Are stripes plainer in foal or adult?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Matthew Collins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.262
Summary:
Sending one of his tracts. Comments on the subject of duplicate equalities.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Loveday
Date:
8 November 1858
Source of text:
APS Misc MS Collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9[–10] Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 253
Summary:
Lyell receives Copley Medal; CD to write notes for JDH’s éloge of Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
9 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A60–1
Summary:
Arrangements to meet JSH at station for his visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 November 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Henry Augustus Severn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.192
Summary:
Having outgrown his self-built telescope, hopes to borrow a larger 'metal' from JH, or to obtain from JH William Herschel's method for polishing telescopes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
Date:
10 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks RMR for contribution to Down charities. Declines invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.462
Summary:
WS's brother-in-law [George Peacock] has died after an illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.99
Summary:
On some of the elements of the orbit of a newly appearing comet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 November 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 315
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 123–4
Summary:
Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].
Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 13 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 13 November 1858, pp. 828–9
Summary:
Reports the decreased yield of pods resulting from excluding bees from the flowers of the kidney bean. Gives other observations suggesting the importance of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers.
Cites cases of crosses between varieties of bean grown close together and requests observations from readers on the subject. States his belief "that is a law of nature that every organic being should occasionally be crossed with a different individual of the same species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project