From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.434
Summary:
Sending some examples of sensorial vision
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.435
Summary:
Sending a magazine containing a notice of JH's paper on sensorial vision.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 jan. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/63, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A19–20
Summary:
Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
4 January 1858
Source of text:
MM/19/17, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
5 January 1858
Source of text:
No. 125, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
6 January 1858
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
7 January 1858
Source of text:
No. 141, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Jan 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A144–5
Summary:
Zebra-striped asses.
Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.
Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.
Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
8th Jan. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/635; MS JT/1/HTYP/507, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
9 January 1858
Source of text:
Archives du Conservatoire botanique, Geneva
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
9 January 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 174
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick McCoy
Date:
11 January 1858
Source of text:
RB MSS M35, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Geographical Society
Date:
11 January 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Certificates of Candidates for Election
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sophia Romilly
Date:
11 January 1858
Source of text:
Tom Pasteur
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Tommy Grieve
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 11th 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/467, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
12 January 1858
Source of text:
No. 254, unit 4, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 220
Summary:
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 January 1858
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.12-13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH characterises himself to Asa Gray as a full throated critic. He often disagrees with his Father [William Jackson Hooker], who can be stuck in old ways of thinking, JDH stops him from publishing outdated views. They clashed over the JOURNAL [OF BOTANY] work, JDH is glad it is discontinued. JDH offers Gray species of Rubiaceae, he might bring them himself if he goes to the USA this year. Has consulted Huxley re. Gray's notes on vitality & offers his comments. Discusses his thoughts on dedoublement, at length, he has discussed the theory with [George] Bentham[GB] & does not consider it logical. Mentions Gray's work on Balanophoreae. Discusses in detail Dicotyledonous exogens & the hierarchy of flowering plants, enumerating the characteristics which should define the highest type. He thinks that the 'vegetable ladder' should be arranged by physiology of the reproductive organs with organic complexity secondary: this would elevate gymnosperms above Phaenogams. [Arthur] Henfrey has found the corpuscula[?] in Gnetum, he suspects the seeds take 7 years to ripen. JDH describes the development of Gnetum ovule during fertilisation. JDH is working on East India Company Assistant Surgeon competitive examination papers & Royal Society Report for [David] Livingstone's expedition. Comments that Gray has correctly described Sambucus fruit. Describes his observations on ovules in different plant genera & families: Viburnum, Caprifol[iaceae]. Conv[olvulaceae]. Aral[iaceae]. Umbelli[ferae]. Rubiaceae, with particular reference to raphe in Lonicerae. He suspects ovule structure will lead to affinities. He discusses his study of Chimonanthus, which he places nearer Monimiaceae & Annonads than Rosaceae, calycifloral characteristics being key. JDH thinks Cumming's Morinda is new. He is sending a fruit of Ceylon [Sri Lanka] Eupyrena. GB recommends his notes on Rubiaceae. Gray could send his notes on Timonius to the Linnean journal, JDH has not received the proof of Gray's Magnolia paper.
Contributor:
Hooker Project