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DCP-LETT-2424

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
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Faraday3575

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
5 March 1859
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3576

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel Alfred Varley
Date:
5 March 1859
Source of text:
Joan Varley
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2423

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

Herschel5729

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

Herschel5730

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

Tyndall1595

From:
Julius Plucker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/128, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3577

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ferenc Toldy
Date:
7 March 1859
Source of text:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences MS RAL 128/1859
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7105

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
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FVM-59-03-08

From:
George Maxwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 March 1859
Source of text:
K59/2683, unit 746, 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

DCP-LETT-2425

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

DCP-LETT-2426

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
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HENSLOW-522

From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 336
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2427

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

DCP-LETT-2428

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
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Tyndall1597

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

Tyndall1596

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
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Faraday3578

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Crookes
Date:
9 March 1859
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-59-03-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Isaac Featherston
Date:
10 March 1859
Source of text:
WP/3/6, 1859/133, general inward correspondence, Superintendent of Wellington Province, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-03-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
10 March 1859
Source of text:
K59/2218, unit 747, 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
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