From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.226
Summary:
Is thinking of applying for the Lowndes professorship at Cambridge, and would welcome a testimonial from him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
13 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 119)
Summary:
Has suggested WDF’s name to Hooker and Henslow, who are sending a circular for aid to John Ralfs.
Is working steadily at his abstract, hopes to publish in spring.
Asks if WDF has seen a donkey with double shoulder stripe; also, has he seen a black greyhound with tan feet and a tan spot over each eye? "Such must exist because theory tells me it ought!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
13 November 1858
Source of text:
UB MS NS 440
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 254
Summary:
Hermaphrodite trees are enough to "knock" CD down. Can JDH observe Eucalyptus to see whether pollen and stigma mature at same time?
JDH’s facts showing European plants are more common in southern Australia than in South America are disturbing because they are improbable on CD’s views of migration.
JDH said he would give examples of Australian forms that have migrated north along the mountains of the Malay Archipelago.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E55–6
Summary:
An enclosure sent with the letter to JDH, 14 November [1858] (Correspondence vol. 7) - questions and comments on lists of European species found in south-west Australia and Tasmania, and European genera found in Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.319
Summary:
Does not intend trying for the Lowndean Professorship. Hopes that JH has been asked to do a memoir of George Peacock. Hears he has been traveling about the country. Sends a riddle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
15 November 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 185
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Thomson
Date:
15 November 1858
Source of text:
QUB MS 13/M/7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Ellis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.129
Summary:
Sending a volume dealing with his latest travels in Madagascar.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
16 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Wants WBT’s advice on poultry breeding experiments. Are certain birds true to their kind, and what should he pay for them?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Council, Philosophical Institute of Victoria
Date:
17 November 1858
Source of text:
MS 11663, Royal Society of Victoria, Records 1854-1982, box 1, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.Letter not found
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Edwin Lancester
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 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:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[17 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.4
Summary:
Agrees to write memoir [of George Peacock], but this will take some time as he is taking son [John] to Southampton to leave for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Samuel Wells
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 77: 147
Summary:
Reports on difference between first and second plantings of beans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Date:
18 Nov 1858
Source of text:
Parliamentary Accounts and Papers, Finance; banking; revenue, &c., Session 3 December 1857–2 August 1858, 33: 499–503; Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 27 November 1858, p. 861
Summary:
CD and eight zoologists and botanists publish a memorial on "the arrangements by which National Collections in Natural History can be best adapted to the advancement of science and its general diffusion among the Public".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (19)
Summary:
Wishes to know whether differences in constitution (such as disease susceptibility) are related to differences in complexion. "Liability to such a disease as yellow fever would answer my question in the best possible way."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 193
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 November 1858
Source of text:
No. 2551, unit 3, p. 435, VPRS 1189 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.194
Summary:
Would like his views on binocular vision. Regarding David Brewster's theories on this subject.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/TR63
Summary:
Thanks for paper on magnetism, and other minor matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project