From:
Edgar Leopold Layard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 185–6
Summary:
Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sep. 1/56
Source of text:
MS JT/1/4/1345-6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
4 September 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/13, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 9 (EH 88206458)
Summary:
Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.220
Summary:
In response to JH's letter to John Tyndall, explains views on the mechanical nature of geological phenomenon of slaty cleavage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Sharpey
To:
William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
6 September 1856
Source of text:
MM/19/98, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38
Summary:
Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.
Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 176
Summary:
Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].
CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Seed-salting.
Pigeons.
Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Varenne Reed
Date:
8 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/1)
Summary:
George is not so low at school as CD anticipated. He keeps at the top of his class, thanks to GVR’s labours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
9 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138)
Summary:
On JAHdeB’s discovery of Cretaceous Chthamalus. Cites his own acceptance of negative evidence about Chthamali in Fossil Lepadidae.
Comments on JAHdeB’s cirripede drawings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.300
Summary:
Visited Liverpool for inspection of School Frigate. Observed Triton. C. P. Smyth will install large telescope at Alta Vista; WS sends excerpt from son's letter. C. P. Smyth also works on spectral line observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.288
Summary:
Has fallen from a ladder in his library and dislocated his shoulder, which accounts for the form of his letter. Has he any recollections of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 261
Summary:
Reports on the naturalised animal life of Ascension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurence Edmondston
Date:
11 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
L. D. Edmondston (private collection)
Summary:
Requests observations on pigeons.
Knew LE’s son [Thomas] and deplores his fate [accidental death in 1846].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11th Sep. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/12/4060-6; 5:3186, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Clifton Sorby
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.179
Summary:
Thanks HS for response to and explains further JH's letter to John Tyndall regarding explanation of origin of geological slaty cleavage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[11 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.180
Summary:
Success of C. P. Smyth's Teneriffe expedition pleases JH; anxious for declination of nebulae taken from high altitudes. Upset over G. J. Stoney's reproduction of JH's collimating telescope without giving him credit.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[12 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.289 & 23.181
Summary:
Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.290
Summary:
Quotes a rhyme. May have been injured even if he had been at Collingwood. Possibly [G. J.?] Stoney has not read JH on the telescope. Is thriving in health but sleeping very well.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/59, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project