From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 138
Summary:
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454)
Summary:
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
[before 3 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.138)
Summary:
Discusses shipment of skins of carrier pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has received nine skins from Walter Elliot of Madras; WBT may describe them if he wishes.
Expects some Persian fowls.
Can WBT inquire about the fertility of certain duck hybrids?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 165: 95
Summary:
Outlines the ranges of northern U. S. species common to Europe. Hopes to investigate the resemblances between the floras of the north-eastern U. S. and western Europe. Discusses routes by which alpine plants appear to have reached U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.323
Summary:
Thought that the book presented by JH had come from Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland); regrets the error.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2799, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 7 novembre 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/340-2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.291
Summary:
Hopes his health is improving as his own is. Saw Henry Warburton last week. Gives one of his own theorems. Sends a lecture on the decimal coinage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Pridie
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8th Novr 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/258, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 105–10
Summary:
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[9 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.12
Summary:
Needs more time for reviewing Pole's paper [see JH's 1856-10-12].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140)
Summary:
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 296
Summary:
Greatly interested in CD’s experiments with seeds in salt water [see "Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Believes CD exaggerates the force of the objection, against migration, that seeds tend to sink.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11–12 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 181
Summary:
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[11 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.183
Summary:
Comments on the state of JH's health, color blindness, missing R.A.S. Notices, and decimal coinage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.19
Summary:
Gives particulars of his vision, which WP characterizes as di-chromic. Recounts experiments with red glass sent by JH to WP. Offers to visit if JH wants personal interview.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.292
Summary:
Pleased to hear his health is improving, but he should rest in the morning. Thinks it will be a long time before the decimal coinage can be introduced. Comments on cooking in the next century. Has been looking at a 10" bar of aluminum, which [Thomas?] Graham has sent him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 [Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 10
Summary:
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
13 November 1856
Source of text:
MM/16/163, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society