From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.223, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
James Brooke
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
24 December 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 JAMES BROOKE
Summary:
Brooke returns ARW’s papers relating to Sarawak and Sadong. [Wallace, A. R. 1856. Notes of a Journey Up the Sadong River, North-West Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1(6): 193-205.] He is critical of ARW’s views on the tendency of the Dayaks towards extinction. Brooke is unwell and expresses a “cool” attitude towards the signs of death.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for some poultry breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Balfour Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.237
Summary:
Thanks JH for testimonial toward BS's appointment to Chair of Natural Philosophy at St. Andrews. Encloses other testimonials.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gore
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decr. 25/1858
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 125–6
Summary:
JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
27 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIG.32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Holst
Date:
27 December 1858
Source of text:
University of Oslo Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.321
Summary:
Would JH extract the dates from his memoir of George Peacock as AD must write something for the R.A.S. Encloses some meteorological queries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 398
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.49
Summary:
Sending details of his astronomical theories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.324
Summary:
Circular letter inviting comments on the proposal of the Council of the Society of Arts to hold another exhibition in 1861.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Jane Moore
Date:
After 1858
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 35
Summary:
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/648, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Millicent Bence Jones
Date:
31 December 1858
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
31. Dec. 58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2232-3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 288
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project