From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Aug
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/892, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Alexander Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.95
Summary:
Grateful for informing JN regarding JH's health. Ten years since they met, but hopes to renew his acquaintance as opportunity arises.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.94
Summary:
Best wishes for JH's health and convalescence.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
2 August
Source of text:
MS JT/1/3/894, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Barlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.18
Summary:
Regrets JH's name is not to be on their list. Lady Herschel's request will be attended to. Hopes he will attend any meeting he feels able to when in London.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.240
Summary:
Congratulations on JH's election as one of the eight foreign members of the French Institute.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3d August 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/57, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Miss Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.271
Summary:
Has not heard from her father for some time. Would she inform her father that Richard Sheepshanks died this morning of apoplexy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1855
Source of text:
DAR 98: A69–A78
Summary:
Sends a skeleton of a Bengal jungle cock.
Has never heard of trained otters breeding in captivity.
Introduced domestic rabbits are confined to the ports of India.
Canaries and other tame finches and thrushes brought into India do not breed well.
Origin of the domestic canary. Tendency of domesticated birds to produce "top-knot" varieties.
The tame geese of lower Bengal are hybrids; those of upper Bengal are said to be pure Anser cygnoides.
Wild Anser cinereus occur in flocks in the cold season.
Discusses at length different breeds of domestic cats and possible wild progenitors. Wild and domestic cats occasionally interbreed. The Angora variety breeds freely with the common Bengal cat and all stages of intermediates can be found.
Believes pigeons have been bred in India since remote antiquity.
Discusses whether mankind is divided into races or distinct species.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this letter.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elie Wartmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 5 aout 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[6 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.157
Summary:
Expresses great sorrow at the death of Richard Sheepshanks; JH has been ill for many months.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Elie Wartmann
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 8 aout 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/W/7, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.272
Summary:
Was pleased to see his handwriting again especially as he had heard that JH had died. Elizabeth Baily was upset by the death of Richard Sheepshanks. Will be going down for the funeral tomorrow and hopes to meet G. B. Airy and William Simms. Both of JH's daughters have corresponded with him over his health.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9th Aug. 1855
Source of text:
MS 7777/01, Wellcome
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 144
Summary:
Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1855
Source of text:
DAR 161: 127
Summary:
Gives names of German dealers who provide seed of superior quality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.54
Summary:
Is trying to clear up matters related to Melbourne University [see JH's 1855-7-8].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.76
Summary:
A note accompanying a copy of the act of Parliament legalizing the new standards, the end product of the work of the Standards Commission.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1855
Source of text:
DAR 98: A5–A6, DAR 9: 15A
Summary:
Is having difficulties marking close species on the list of British plants.
In all his attempts to advance geographical botany he is stopped by the "application and signification of the word ""species"" " the use of which is both "indefinite and variable". He encloses his list of "Categories of Species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
