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FVM-58-12-17a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
17 December 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 186
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2381

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 166: 289
Summary:

K. E. von Baer’s view of the air bladder of fishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7096

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[17 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.252
Summary:

About biographical information on George Peacock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9204

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[17 December 1858]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20797 (C: RS:HS 23.250)
Summary:

Thanks for WW's views on capillary action. Asks for facts about George Peacock on whom JH was writing an obituary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7097

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.320
Summary:

Regarding George Peacock and his mathematical work. Gives some of his own theories, which he intends publishing. Includes a riddle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3535

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
18 December 1858
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel150

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.530
Summary:

Asks GA to help in determining cost of one observation station in Peking [see Richard Owen's 1858-12-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14178

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0404; Reel 1087
Summary:

[Marked 'Private.'] Treasury replied unfavorably to request for extension of magnetic observations. C. E. Trevelyan suggests that joint letter from JH and presidents of R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. proposing only one observer (no observatory) at Peking would be acceptable, if estimated cost is included. No other locations will be approved. This concession was made possible by influence of Prince Albert.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel149

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.532
Summary:

The Treasury has, with great reluctance, agreed to establish one magnetic observatory at Peking, rather than the extensive plans proposed [see Edward Sabine's 1858-6-26].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/28)
Summary:

Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."

Effects of different climates on breeding periods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12879

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[19 December 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0289; Reel 1054
Summary:

If only one observer is assigned to Peking, observations could not be conducted. Describes staff and expenses at other magnetic observatories. Edward Sabine's plan to adapt all instruments to photographic self-registering instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-12-20

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 December 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 91
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel5844

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.313
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments on his book on harmony. Explains one of his theories more fully.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel151

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.533
Summary:

Given the Treasury stance [see Richard Owen's 1858-12-18], GA sees little point in setting up one station [see JH's 1858-12-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3536

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
21 December 1858
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7656, F23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3537

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Walter Calverley Trevelyan
Date:
21 December 1858
Source of text:
NUL Trevelyan Papers, WCT 127
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-515

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 81
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2382

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 128–30
Summary:

Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.

Still regards plant types as older than animal types.

The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3447

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[22 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS MC.5.381
Summary:

Discusses proposal to establish magnetic and meteorological observatories at Peking, Newfoundland, Vancouver, and Falkland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8592

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[22 December 1858]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib. (C: TxU:H/L-0290; Reel 1054 & RS Sa.668)
Summary:

Sends RO a note from G. B. Airy on the inadvisability of having a meteorological observatory in Peking. JH agrees with Airy. When William Whewell arrives for a visit, JH will seek his advice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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