From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[4 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.330
Summary:
Has found a temporary tenant for his house.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
5 December 1859
Source of text:
L59/12226, 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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[5 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 78)
Summary:
Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.
Domestic variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
5 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.183)
Summary:
Mentions English scientists who support mutability of species.
Asks QdeB whether he could help locate a French translator and publisher.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.209
Summary:
Queries regarding C. J. G. Pastorff's observations. Believes author is now dead, but can he inform him concerning his mode of observation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles May
Date:
[5 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.315 & 23.291
Summary:
Thanks for the fragment of poor [Ben?]. Comments on this and the composition of the metal of bells.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Balmain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 December 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/3983, unit 4, p. 326, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
W. Bonsey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.191
Summary:
Will be pleased to see him on Wednesday. Hopes he will stay the night.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.144
Summary:
Sending R. C. Carrington's certificate for JH's signature.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 December 1859
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 295, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 December 1859
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Grubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:
Informs JH which observatories received the object lenses from his workshops.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joanna B. Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.491
Summary:
Charles Lyell has given her JH's translation of J. W. Goethe's poem. Comments on it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
7th Dec. 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/179, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
[Marc] Secrétan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:
Lists dimensions of the equatorial telescope at Paris Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1859
Source of text:
No. 659, unit 5, p. 173, VPRS 1187 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
8 December 1859
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Thomson
Date:
8 December 1859
Source of text:
BL add MS 48983, f.8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 December 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B16 and DAR 106: D22
Summary:
Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".
Notes error involving rhinoceros.
Encloses other notes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
