From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2557, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 13th 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/219; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1361-2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8)
Summary:
Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.
Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Griesbach
Date:
[13 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.63
Summary:
Sorry to hear he has been laid up, but his recovery has been quicker than his own. Unable to help him as his own lands have to be sold, but encloses a check for £20, which please acknowledge with a promissory note.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108)
Summary:
Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].
CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
15 January 1858
Source of text:
No. 272, 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:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Decaisne
Date:
15 January 1858
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 January 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter inserted before f. 44
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 221
Summary:
CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.
Family illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 453
Summary:
Has gone over to CD’s side on the fertilisation of clover in New Zealand by bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lock Eastlake
Date:
15 January 1858
Source of text:
NG MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2558, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 January 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 334
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.30
Summary:
Is obliged for JH's observations on his statement of [Joseph?] Hume's doctrine. These errors are discreditable and will diminish the utility of the book.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 18 jan. 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/93; MS JT/1/TYP/354-5, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0032; Reel 1062
Summary:
Sorry that CB's nephew bothered JH with request for money from fund for CB's sister. Nephew must deal directly with Reversionary Interest Society. Recalls mutual vow of JH and CB forty years ago to pursue many intellectual endeavors.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
H. C. Marshall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.20
Summary:
Regrets he will be unable to attend the forthcoming wedding.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1858]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:
Requests an address of a Mr. Macintosh in order to inquire about a lecture topic.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Jan. 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/487, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project