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FVM-60-11-01a

From:
Charles Ledger
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 November 1860
Source of text:
Q60/10079, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.For a lightly-edited copy of this letter, correcting some of Ledger’s occasionally idiosyncratic spellings, see Argus, 3 November 1860, p. 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141)
Summary:

THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.

CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.

Henrietta’s serious illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3875

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Booth
Date:
1 November 1860
Source of text:
TNA MT9 / 11, towards end of file M2379
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3874

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
1 November 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 316
Summary:

Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.

"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".

Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2974

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 317
Summary:

Discusses pamphlet by A. S. Taylor

and note by A. W. v. Hofmann concerning iodine solution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-11-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
2 November 1860
Source of text:
Q60/10078, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1737

From:
Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Friday Morning (Nov 2/60)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/50; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1627-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3877

From:
James Booth
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 November 1860
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 73, 5022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4496

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (70)
Summary:

More rainfall data.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1135

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[2 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.5
Summary:

Thanks JW for his double star catalogue; JH comments on a few items contained therein.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3876

From:
Thomas Stevenson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 November 1860
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.98-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3878

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 November 1860
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008)
Summary:

DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].

Henrietta’s health is better.

Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11906

From:
William MacPherson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.268
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Will look forward to receiving his article in time for the July issue of the Quarterly Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1738

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
Sunday | 4th, Nov 1860.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/260; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2367, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1739

From:
William Fullarton Cumming
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 4th. 1860
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/279, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11398

From:
Elias Loomis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.309
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's kind invitation to Collingwood, but regrets he cannot find time to come as he sails on the day after tomorrow and has much business to fit in before then.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-11-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Henry Edwards]
Date:
5 November 1860
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1740

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hector Tyndale
Date:
Monday mg
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1473; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1625, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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