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DCP-LETT-1885F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 250–1)
Summary:

Thanks for the very detailed information sent by EWVH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 164
Summary:

CD (and Emma) had a good laugh over JDH’s mortified response to a misinterpretation (in print) concerning his position on multiple creation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1233

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 1st 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/225, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7884

From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.87
Summary:

Reflects on relations between differences of same power of zero. Reviews procedure developed for determining terms and law of coefficients. JH's critique expanded role for these, but HW disagrees with JH's latest comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1234

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS AD/03/D/04/03; 5:3154, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1235

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
2nd June 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/623, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel674

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1856]
Source of text:
JHS 1.66
Summary:

Complaining about the recent wet weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4842

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.231
Summary:

Has procured an actinometer and would like details of the scale.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1886

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
3 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.129)
Summary:

Comments on SPW’s book [Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)].

Mentions questions he has for SPW [see 1890].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7047

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.283
Summary:

Would he answer some of his queries when he has leisure? Queries on the law of beats for unison sounds. Met JH's daughter on Monday, who gave a fair account of JH and his recent work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1887

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.130)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for specimen of Dorking cock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel470

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 June 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.216.117
Summary:

Some more information on the use of the actinometer [see JH's 1856-4-24 & GA's 1856-6-3]; some news of JH's wife, Margaret.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1888

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Reports safe arrival of rabbit sent by WBT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1889

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 303
Summary:

SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.

Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.

Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1807

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 403
Summary:

Note on cases of representative shells that are not clearly either varieties or species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 72: 59–61
Summary:

Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
5 June [1856-9]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Thanks WBDM for the particulars on the iceberg.

Will look up the barnacle specimen to which he refers at British Museum.

WBDM should remember when he returns to New Zealand that aboriginal rat and frog are "great desiderata in Natural History".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1891

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 181: 32
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.

Variability of agrarian weeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel672

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1856]
Source of text:
JHS 1.64
Summary:

Lectures AH on the 'examination paper of life' after AH had complained that he was disgusted by a college examination.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
Date:
6 June [1856]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 1999/1/30)
Summary:

Comments on TVW’s book [On the variation of species with special reference to the Insecta (1856)].

On TVW’s Unitarianism. Predicts TVW will fall further away from Christianity.

[Letter sent by TVW to Charles Lyell.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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