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DCP-LETT-3096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241)
Summary:

Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-03-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 March 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-03-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 March 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 129
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crawfurd
Date:
25 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 299
Summary:

Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1774

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Mar. 26. 61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/639-40, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.

Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.

Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3973

From:
Henry Richard Williams
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 March 1861
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 77, p.1388
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 92
Summary:

Henslow is dying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3972

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Deacon
Date:
26 March 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/2/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

RS-MM-001428

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
26 March 1861
Source of text:
MM/19/25, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-3099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-03-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Bradshaw
Date:
27 March 1861
Source of text:
R55, Central Records, St Kilda City Council, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel365

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1861]
Source of text:
RGO 6.476.390
Summary:

Reminds JH that the algebraic formulation of the theory of the achromatic telescope eyepiece was formulated by GA.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4863

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.250
Summary:

Is sending a tract on 'Probable Errors.' Further observations on JH's article on telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 93
Summary:

H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".

H. C. Watson’s hostility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8635

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H[enry] Stevens
Date:
[27 March 1861]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:

Expresses thanks for sending Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge, a report by A. D. Bache, and materials from the American Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3103F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[28 Mar – 14 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
Max Rambod (dealer) (February 2008)
Summary:

Asks for some unspecified items to be sent to him. The Half-lop [rabbit] should be killed, but without damaging the skull. Has not opened the box with skulls yet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3104

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 62
Summary:

Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.

Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.

Sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to read MS.

Outlines poultry breeding experiment he would like to see tried.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1305

From:
G. P. Gutehingt[?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1861-3-29 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.87j
Summary:

The Churchwardens of Hawkhurst are inviting JH to the Easter dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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