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From:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Horne
Date:
1 March 1859
Source of text:
No. 1173, unit 5, VPRS 963 register of correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Charles Coxe
Date:
March 1859
Source of text:
RCP
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday 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
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
March 1859
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1859). Letter from Mr. Wallace concerning the geographical distribution of birds. Ibis : 1 (4): 449-454
Summary:

ARW makes “a few remarks and criticisms” of Sclater’s paper [Sclater, P. L. 1859. The Geographical Distribution of Birds. Ibis, 1: 449-454.]. He challenges the areas that Sclater proposes for his “six grand zoological provinces” by redefining the regions. ARW discusses the geology and zoology of these areas.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 March 1859
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday 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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
4 March 1859
Source of text:
K59/1934, 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:
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
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From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 335
Summary:

No summary available.

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday 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
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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