From:
Alexander John Ellis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.41
Summary:
Will bring down his R.S.L. form to Collingwood. Regarding the phonetics of Hindustani.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 March 1859
Source of text:
MM/19/18, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 5
Summary:
Has finished geographical distribution chapter and asks JDH to read it.
Is it just to say embryological characters are of high importance in plant classification?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
2 March 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.138, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.218
Summary:
Has used JH's writings for his lectures, but would like a simplification of statements dealing with the relation of temperature and pressure in the atmosphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
4 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Much concerned by death of JBI’s mother.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 6
Summary:
Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.
CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Sends payment for poultry received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[6 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.256
Summary:
Tries to help EB understand JH's writings on meteorology; some comments on location of writings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.219
Summary:
Thanks for his suggestion for a lecture on graphical processes. Has had little communication with W. R. Birt since the latter left Kew. Has returned the book by Karl Kreil. Would be pleased to receive the Russian Observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julius Plucker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/128, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.257
Summary:
Responds to AD's 1859-2-24 on forces, which degenerates into nonsense; comments on James Kemplay's writing on comets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 61)
Summary:
Sends THH questions about "serial homologies" and "vegetative repetition" in Mollusca and Radiata.
Abstract volume [Origin] nearly completed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478)
Summary:
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–12 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 288
Summary:
Serial homologies in the Mollusca. Gives instances of repetition of homological parts in Radiata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 152–3
Summary:
Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.
Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.
Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
9th March 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1132; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1952, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/183; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1953, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 7
Summary:
Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.
Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 12th 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/220; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1363, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project