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Faraday3646

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
24 September 1859
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/076
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.170)
Summary:

Discusses text of Origin.

Compares Eocene and modern climates.

Mentions Hooker’s view of his geographical [distribution] chapters.

Asks CL’s opinion of his statements on distribution during "glacial and preceding warmer periods".

Mentions chapters on geological record and embryology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4155

From:
Adam and Charles Black
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:

Will allow more pages for the text of JH's Telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-09-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Standish
Date:
26 September 1859
Source of text:
Unit 2, VPRS 1199 Chief Commissioner's inward correspondence, VA 724 Victoria Police, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Varenne Reed
Date:
26 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/3)
Summary:

Encloses draft in payment for tutoring of sons Francis and Leonard, with thanks for all GVR’s assistance.

Will send his servant for Arum plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-09-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
27 September 1859
Source of text:
L59/9995, 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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FVM-59-09-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Council, Philosophical Institute of Victoria
Date:
28 September 1859
Source of text:
MS 11663, Royal Society of Victoria, Records 1854-1982, box 1, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.Letter not found
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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HENSLOW-535

From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 September 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 340
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel9206

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.214
Summary:

Asks JH for his impressions of the Aberdeen B.A.A.S. meeting and of U. J. J. Leverrier's claim that there may be an intermercurial planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-09-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
30 September 1859
Source of text:
L59/10157, 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

DCP-LETT-2496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.171)
Summary:

Is sending off last proof-sheets of Origin.

Asks CL’s opinion of final chapter. Mentions difficulties of his argument.

Is too unwell to start for Ilkley.

Murray’s printing of 1250 copies seems too large to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP786

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Gould
Date:
30 September 1859
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418781
  • Wallace, A. R. (1860). Notes on Semioptera wallacii, Gray, from a letter addressed to John Gould , Esq., F.R.S., by A. R. Wallace, Esq., dated Amboyna, Sept. 30, 1859. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 28: 61
Summary:

Reply to Gould's letter of June 25th; re. Semioptera wallacei G. R. Gray.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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