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Faraday3382

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lock Eastlake
Date:
25 January 1858
Source of text:
NG MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel145

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[25 January 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.471
Summary:

Thanks GA for a letter of introduction to friends in Rome [used by JH's daughter Margaret Louisa and her new husband, Reginald Dyke Marshall]; JH is willing to serve on a committee with GA and others if he does not have to go to London for meetings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP366

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[4 Jan. 1858 & 25 Jan. 1858]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/41
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/72
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418384
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 65-68]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 184-185]
Summary:

Receipt of mail from home including letters from Bates and Darwin; cleaning and packing of collections from Aru; detailed account of numbers, types and locations of insects collected, including first serious collection of very small beetle species (Staphylinidae etc) at Macassar; comparison of data sent by Bates with his own; reaction to ARW's paper "On the succession of species", approving letter from Darwin; benefit of Darwin's proposed publication on species and varieties; boundary between two distinct faunas in Malay Archipelago; proposed expeditions to Gilolo island [Halmahera] and New Guinea; advantages of Amboyna as a base; battles of Balaclava and Inkerman; Britain - India meeting [British rule in India]; insects in the Andes.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
26 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.)
Summary:

Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11666

From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.31
Summary:

Has been thinking over the names of solicitors and believes he can recommend Messrs. Lewin of Southampton St. The senior partner is a brother of JM and JH should keep his papers when he concludes his business with his present solicitors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6620

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[26 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.220
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-58-01-27

From:
Isaac Featherston
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
27 January 1858
Source of text:
WP/6/1 Superintendent's letter book, p. 385, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1488

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 28/58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1353, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3384

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Eliot
Date:
28 January 1858
Source of text:
Cross (1885), 2: 12.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3385

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 January 1858
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/78
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1806

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.1 (C: RGO 6.694.474)
Summary:

Wants someone else to take responsibility for committee on magnetic observations [see JH's 1858-1-25]; GA proposes Edward Sabine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3386

From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 January 1858
Source of text:
RI MS F2 J225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3172

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Roderick Impey Murchison?]
Date:
[30 January 1858]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen 784/1/13
Summary:

Has been appointed, with William Whewell, to committee to help ensure continuance of observations on terrestrial magnetism. Needs names of those on B.A.A.S. committee with whom they will work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9194

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[30 January 1858]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20795 (C: RS:HS 23.218)
Summary:

Discusses B.A.A.S. business and asks for WW's views on some magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].

Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.

Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12300

From:
P. O'Callaghan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.156
Summary:

Sends a copy of [John?] Dalton's letter for which he is obliged. Expresses appreciation of his recent visit to Kent and Sussex.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12890

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[31 January 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0302; Reel 1054
Summary:

Send names of members of B.A.A.S. committee appointed to cooperate with R.S.L. committee for purpose of procuring continuance of observations of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-02-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick McCoy
Date:
February 1858
Source of text:
E58/1482, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel7079

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.308
Summary:

Congratulations and best wishes for JH's daughter recently married. If he has any material for the annual report, please send it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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