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Herschel8505

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[16 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.485 (C: 23.253)
Summary:

Thanks HS for sending [see HS's 1859-1-10] HS's Essays and his 'Recent Astronomy and the Nebular Hypothesis.' Regarding the latter, points out a geometrical error, expresses reservations about HS's and Auguste Comte's views of the nebular hypothesis, and argues against HS's theory of sunspot structure. Agrees with HS's idea that some nebulae may be nearer than commonly thought.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1582

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
17th Jan. 1859
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/408.378-9, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1583

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
17th Jan 1859
Source of text:
RR/4/264 Tyndall 17 January 1859, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

SOMERVILLE199

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
17 Jan 1859
Source of text:
MS2 CELE 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday3551

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
17 January 1859
Source of text:
Bod MS Somerville dep b.206 MS2 CELE 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7283

From:
Langham Dale
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.463
Summary:

Is grateful for the kind manner in which he answered his letter. Gives news of the College in South Africa. Details of Shaw House, Newbury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1584

From:
Robert Main
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1859, January 18.
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/408.380, RGO
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-59-01-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
19 January 1859
Source of text:
J59/345, 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-59-01-19a

From:
Francis Dutton
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 January 1859
Source of text:
GRG 35/25, unit 2, vol. 7, p. 938, State Records of SA, Adelaide
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday3552

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Burnside
Date:
19 January 1859
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3553

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
19 January 1859
Source of text:
UB MS NS 443
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3554

From:
Emil Dessewffy and Ferenc Toldy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 January 1859
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.154
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 2
Summary:

At work on abstract.

Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.

CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
21 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Geological collections)
Summary:

Acknowledges the honour that the Council [of the Geological Society] have conferred upon him [award of Wollaston Medal]. Will attend the anniversary meeting if his health permits, but cannot attend the dinner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6436

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.204
Summary:

Capt. W. S. Jacob has supplied him with enclosed letter as a basis for the Committee to work on. Would like his opinion on the scheme. Hopes Poonah will be the base for new observations. Size and quality of the Kew solar photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 3
Summary:

Darwin encloses letters from ARW, and expresses admiration for the spirit in which they were written. Darwin thanks Hooker and Lyell for their intervention in the joint reading of ARW and Darwin’s papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. Darwin makes enquiries about the geology of the Himalayas.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 3
Summary:

Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.

CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-01-24

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 134, unit 4, p. 34, VPRS 1187 outward 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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WCP1841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 January [1859]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 9-12
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 134-135]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 220-222]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2404

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 100: 131–2
Summary:

Relieved by Wallace’s letter.

At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.

JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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