From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS.Add.7656/T597/1(2)-2(2); MS JT/1/T/1432; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1467, Stokes Correspondence; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.255
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's views on the rainbow question. Intends to send his comments to the London Review, if he has no objections. What effects would the Comet have if it hits the Earth? Mr. Wheelwright appears to be in error on his earthquake views.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Fairbairn
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 May 1861
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Joseph Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1867 or later]-5-15
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.341
Summary:
His letter arrived just before his father's death.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Robert Gordon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 May 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/2/64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 92-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
16 May 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/222; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1370-1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Robert Edmond Grant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1861
Source of text:
Grant 1861, pp. v–vi
Summary:
[Letter printed in REG, Tabular view of the primary divisions of the animal kingdom.] Dedicates his book to CD in testimony of his admiration of CD’s successful attempt to throw light on "the mystery of mysteries of organic nature".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.77
Summary:
Had a visit from James Maclaren, who now conveys JN's drawings of the spots on the sun. Comments on the effect of the 'willow leaves.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17 May 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151
Summary:
Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].
Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.
CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".
Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
17 May 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.66
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
17 May 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/694, f.327
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Gordon
Date:
17 May 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/2/64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.256
Summary:
Has checked over JH's letter on rainbows and will have it signed Herschel. Encloses a scrap about rain. Mr. Wheelwright's note is curious. Will send a copy of the London Review.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
17?-5-1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.240, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Joseph Hooker writes to inform Miles Berkeley that John Steven Henslow had died the previous day at 4am.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
18 May [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Describes results of his experiments with hollyhocks. Some varieties breed true even though growing near others. This suggests that their pollen is "pre-potent" over that of other varieties, which is not the case with most plants. Asks some questions on which he would be glad to have correspondent work. [See also 3170.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 100
Summary:
Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
Sunday, 19th May
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1421; MS JR/1/TYP/4/1468-9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[21 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 44
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters