From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
April 3. 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/596, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0051; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sends Mint accounts of last three months for JH's approval. Mr. Ramsay [War Department] still silent on disappearance of Benjamin Wyon's model for Kaffir Medal. Will ask Lord Panmure [Fox Maule] for permission to have Wyon make medal from new model not approved by Queen. Has not yet seen JH's successor, Thomas Graham.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Barton
Date:
[5 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0083.2; Reel 1054
Summary:
Signs and returns Mint accounts. Notes that two are missing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/41)
Summary:
Asks for a pea variety for an experiment.
Discusses C. F. v. Gärtner’s results [in Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]. Criticises Gärtner’s belief that hybrids are always less fertile than their parents.
Asks about MJB’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 127
Summary:
CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].
CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 95
Summary:
Responds to CD’s questions about mountain vegetation of the Cape of Good Hope. The distribution of some plants provides problems for both migration and special creation hypotheses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Hill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0937; Reel 1083
Summary:
Hill introduces courier Thomas Adams, who will pick up JH's parcels. Hopes JH's health is improving. [On verso, signed at Collingwood] Adams's receipt for parcels and one letter, all addressed to officials at Royal Mint.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
11 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/42)
Summary:
Thanks MJB for peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
11 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 15, 14 April 1855, p. 242
Summary:
CD describes his experiments on the effects on germination of the immersion of seeds in sea-water. Hopes to throw light on the distribution of plants. Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle to inform him whether such experiments have already been tried and what class or species of seeds they suppose would be particularly liable to be killed by sea-water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 128
Summary:
Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.
Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.
Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[13 April 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.39
Summary:
A note of information about the impending forwarding of all Melbourne University materials to GA [see JH's 1855-3-23].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[13 April 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.41
Summary:
A letter of information, together with a list of all material, sent with the material, to GA [see JH's 1855-4-13].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.44
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of a parcel of material [see JH's 1855-4-13].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 April [1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0412; Reel 1087
Summary:
Upset by Cambridge Bill now before Parliament. It contains changes contrary to report from [Cambridge University] Commission. W. H. Bateson will write to John Romilly, and GP writes to JH, both seeking letters to Lord Chancellor explaining this problem.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15 April 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/18, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.328
Summary:
Henry Lawson has presented all his meteorological instruments and his transit instrument to this Observatory. Hopes to study the relation of the atmosphere to the prevalence of disease. Wonders if the Government or some society would be willing to finance assistant in the observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Emil du Bois Reymond
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/427, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mary Anne Coxe
Date:
16th April 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/247, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.170
Summary:
Discusses possibility of JH taking position of a judge for Britain at a scientific exposition in France.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Peacock
Date:
[17 April 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.306 & 23.155
Summary:
Comments on the action of the Council of the Senate of Cambridge University.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project