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From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 Feb 1859
Source of text:
MS F1 I56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
M. Felix Billet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.63
Summary:

Sending his work on optics. Comments on their mutual work in this field.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Ellison Portlock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.178
Summary:

Asks JH to sign a document relating to Col. Gelland [?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants white breeds of poultry.

Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
T. P. Anderson
Date:
[5 February 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0029; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's only knowledge of Hollier trust fund was explained in earlier letters. Signs and returns annual report for trust fund.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475)
Summary:

JL’s brother’s accident.

Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
M. Felix Billet
Date:
[6 February 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.64 & 23.255
Summary:

Thanks for his book on optics. Comments on various points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1859
Source of text:
DAR 48: A67
Summary:

Is sorry to hear of bad health of CD and his daughter.

Discusses, with an example, the difficulty of explaining structural differences between closely allied species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
8 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

His doctor urges CD most strongly not to expose himself to the excitement and fatigue of receiving the [Wollaston] Medal. He will ask Lyell to receive it on his behalf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
9 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476)
Summary:

CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.324
Summary:

Sends a riddle. Has added a stanza. Does not credit the story of [T. C.?] Jansen's children. Comments on Roger Bacon's telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[12 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106)
Summary:

Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.

The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.

His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James David Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12th Feb. 1859
Source of text:
JDF Incoming letters 1859, no.532, StA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 35
Summary:

Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julius Plucker
Date:
13th Feb, 1859
Source of text:
Plucker item, #70 (Box 2/6), NRCC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
February 18th, 1859
Source of text:
pp. 193-4, Glaciers of the Alps
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Butler
Date:
20 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 37))
Summary:

Sends naturalists’ autographs.

Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1859?]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Has given proxy according to James Paget’s request. Almost sure it is in favour of [J. A.?] Kingdon [for election to Athenaeum?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 [Feb 1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends list of poultry breeds he would like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
23 February 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.137, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project