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DCP-LETT-2872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 July [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether crossing breeds of hive-bees is advantageous

and whether different pigeon breeds have different incubation periods.

Explains and apologises for the lack of detailed quotations in Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0400

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
22 and 23 July 1860
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 July [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30)
Summary:

Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].

Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001424

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
22 July 1860
Source of text:
MM/19/21, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-2877

From:
Charles Hardy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1860
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 170
Summary:

CD mistaken, in Origin, p. 73, in saying that only humble-bees visit red clover.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1992

From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.25
Summary:

Describes, using a diagram, how the solar protuberances appeared to him as a color-blind person when he observed a solar eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-07-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 July 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel7899

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.103
Summary:

On behalf of GW's wife, thanks for JH's gift of table and bedcurtains.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3806

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Newborn Robert Morson
Date:
24 July 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-60-07-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Areschoug
Date:
25 July 1860
Source of text:
J. E. Areschoug brefsamling, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-60-07-25d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
25 July 1860
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0401

From:
Darwin, Emma; Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[26 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Faraday3808

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Ann Chantrey
Date:
26 July 1860
Source of text:
V.A. and J.R. Johnstone
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3807

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Newborn Robert Morson
Date:
26 July 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3809

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 July 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/5, f.16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FL-1254

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel14433

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 July 1860]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0527.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

[Government refusal to support five-year magnetic survey] has eliminated services of T. W. Blakiston and Thomas Hull as directors of two magnetic observatories. Instruments for Montreal observatory. Recent magnetic changes in North America. Success of elder B. C. Brodie's eye operation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hardy
Date:
27 July [1860]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks CH for correction of blunder in Origin about hive-bees sucking clover: "a greater kindness than a new fact".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE139

From:
James Dwight Dana (?)
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
27 Jul 1860
Source of text:
MSD 1 / 93, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday3810

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
27 July 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E22a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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