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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
19 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/140
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/140
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Alexander R. Clarke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.345
Summary:
Thanks for sending him his essay on the yard, pendulum and metre. Hopes it will engage the attention of the public. A measure of 50" would be very convenient.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 November 1863
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG/3/l/7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
20 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/141
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
20 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/137
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 230
Summary:
Sends annual cheque for Down parish charities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 124
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.264 (C: RGO 6.255.232)
Summary:
Regarding the Proceedings of the Southern Telescope Committee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/55
Summary:
Journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for ARW; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's Origin of Species, geographical distribution of species; ARW's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22–3 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 211
Summary:
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[22 November 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.255.92 (C: RGO 6.255.233 inc)
Summary:
Sends GA [see GA's 1863-11-21] JH's copy of the Melbourne telescope correspondence and reports; needs information from GA and Edwin Dunkin about the sun's motion, although JH questions some of Dunkin's work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
22 November 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/68
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Buckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.115
Summary:
Would like JH's support for sending a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury for a Civil List pension for herself.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
23 November 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 177
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 141
Summary:
CD’s poor health.
Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS CG/3/1/7; 6:4409, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[23 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.23
Summary:
Response to some papers sent to R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project