From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday night
Source of text:
MS JT/H/470-1, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
3 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 100)
Summary:
Finds his grief over his daughter Anne’s death still strong.
Is following Lyell’s advice about publishing his species doctrine. It is not to be a sketch, however, but as perfect as his 19 years of work will allow. His work on pigeons has been invaluable on many points. "No subject gives me so much trouble as means of dispersal of terrestrial production in the oceanic islands."
Finds "most remarkable differences" in skeletons of rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 October 1856
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.119, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
5 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.139)
Summary:
Offers TCE dog’s skin and skull received from W. F. Daniell in West Africa.
Mentions his experiments involving hawk pellets in seed distribution.
Reminds TCE about pig crosses and incisors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 178
Summary:
Agrees with JDH that Cytisus report [presumably of a large change] not sound. CD pleased because, if true, species would change too quickly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct. 5th, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/228, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
Frankland, 248, JRL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Freeman Daniell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct – 7 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 223
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries on Sierra Leone: fertility of European animals introduced to W. Africa, relationship of health and complexion of Europeans, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
8 Oct [1856?]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 111
Summary:
The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.65
Summary:
Thinks it may be a good idea to utilize aluminium to coat the speculum of reflecting telescopes. Is shortly to take command of iron works and furnaces and hopes to carry out experiments to produce barytic glass.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Oct. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/3/897, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 180
Summary:
CD coming to London.
Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1005, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
9th Oct. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/476, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 octobre 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/60, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.157
Summary:
Sends [William?] Pole's paper on color blindness, in case JH wishes to examine it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
10 October 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/157, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Greenwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.29
Summary:
Found his letter acknowledging the gift of his book awaiting him on his return from the continent. Reasons why he wrote the book. Has had letter from William Whewell. Hears that JH's health has not been good.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (6)
Summary:
Thanks AG for the first part of his "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403]
and for information on social and varying plants.
Would like to know number of genera of introduced plants in U. S.
Is surprised at some affinities of northern U. S. flora and asks for any climatic explanations.
Asks what proportion of genera common to U. S. and Europe are mundane.
Is glad AG will work out the northern ranges of the European species and the ranges of species with regard to size of genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project