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DCP-LETT-3042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 5 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5
Summary:

Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13042

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[6 January 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0455; Reel 1055
Summary:

Alexander S. Herschel's education goals and job prospects. [Lucy?] has published 'Marshall's Essays.' Question about investments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1756

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1248, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
7 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3935

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Date:
7 January 1861
Source of text:
PML Misc Ray
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1757

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday night | 7th Jan
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/251, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3045

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:

Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
9 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.

Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3937

From:
James Joseph Cregeen
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 January 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F4 J21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1758

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mary Helen Dawes
Date:
9th Jan. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/1321, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3936

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frances Fawcett
Date:
9 January 1861
Source of text:
APS Misc MS Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8566

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Adam and Charles Black]
Date:
[9 January 1861]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Sending first 64 pages of JH's Physical Geography with some insertions and corrections. Requests proofs in duplicate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10633

From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.14
Summary:

Expressing sympathy on the illness of Margaret Louisa Marshall (JH's daughter). Would like to hear the latest news by the bearer. Would JH append his name to the enclosed form.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3938

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
10 January 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1759

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jany. 11th 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/19; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1314, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel6251

From:
John Ball
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.12
Summary:

Sends him latest edition of the book brought out by the Alpine Club. A member has found the height of one of the mountains lower than that usually stated. Has written an article on glaciers for this month's Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3939

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
11 January 1861
Source of text:
UB MS NS 455
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3940

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 January 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.157-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel884

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[12] January 1861
Source of text:
JHS 5.5
Summary:

Writes to inform son John of the sudden death [after only a very brief illness] of John's sister Margaret Louisa. [The letter is quiet and accepting, praising God for the happy and blameless life that 'Looey' had led and what joy she had brought to the family.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3046F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:

Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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