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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
25 November 1858
Source of text:
UB MS NS 441
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
25 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/41)
Summary:
Thanks for HS’s Essays: [scientific, political, and speculative, vol. 1 (1858)]. Admires his general argument for the development theory.
CD is preparing an abstract on change of species. He treats subject as a naturalist, not from a general point of view. Otherwise he might have quoted HS’s argument to great advantage.
CD particularly liked articles on music and style. Expression is a favourite topic with CD. Agrees all expression is biological.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Wells
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 77: 146
Summary:
Replies to CD’s question on whether beans in first or second year were planted near any other varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
26 November 1858
Source of text:
MM/10/80, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 258
Summary:
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
27th Nov. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/175, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
27 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
Scriptorium (dealers) (1982)
Summary:
"I thank you much for your note. The object, of course, is what you say. I did not guess that I shd have to pay so much per hen to Baker & the experiment would not be at all worth such a sum. I have not a single hen worth sending to Steven’s. If it really will not cost you much trouble, & you could get me some Hens & a young Spanish cock of pure breed . . . I will try to experiment and shall be very heartily obliged to you". CD mentions satisfactory local hens of a particular breed and an experiment being conducted on "Silver Barbs [with] black wing bars & white rump or bar at end of tail".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe
Date:
28 November 1858
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/262
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/262
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.102
Summary:
Responds to JH's questions about discovery sites of extinct species of saurians, mammoths, snakes, giant sloths, etc.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Douglas Cook
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/C/47; MS JT/1/TYP/1/226, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
30 November 1858
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/45
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
Summary:
ARW's love of solitude; suggests Silk reads his article [with Darwin about natural selection] in August Linnean Society Proceedings; proud of complimentary remarks by Lyell and Hooker therein; dislike of politics; interest in ethnology; asks about books read; has read Tristram Shandy and novels by Dumas; marriage; sending an article on "smoke" for The Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project