From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
20th Feb. 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/619, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/970, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Feb 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/868, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A128–A132
Summary:
Opposition to EB within the Asiatic Society.
Possibility of establishment of a zoological garden at Calcutta.
Has seen Gallus varius alive for the first time.
Will procure domestic pigeons for CD; could CD pay for them by returning hardy creatures, such as macaws and marmosets, which EB can sell for a high price in India?
Does not recall his authority for genealogy of the asses of Oman. If a genuine wild ass exists EB believes it will be in south Arabia.
Infertility of Irish and Devon red deer.
Details of an unusual species of wild dog.
Fertility of canine hybrids. General tendency toward hybrid sterility.
Has skins of hybrid Coracias and the parent species.
Wide-ranging species; skua found in Europe and Australia, but not in the tropics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Thomson
Date:
Saturday 23rd Feb.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/1550-1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb 24, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/7/2412-14, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A126–A127
Summary:
There is a possibility of establishment of a Government Museum at Calcutta, with which the Asiatic Society Museum would be merged. EB would like the curatorship but fears other possible applicants. Asks CD to represent him to W. H. Sykes.
Discusses the ancients’ awareness of various cats as deduced from the etymology of their names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 8
Summary:
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.217
Summary:
Is sending C. T. Beke's certificate for his signature. Hopes his health is still improving.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
29 Feb [1856]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/45)
Summary:
Preparing paper on seed-soaking for Linnean Society ["Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Wants to use MJB’s results. Lost ardour when he found seeds would not float.
Has grown MJB’s purest pea seeds and got a few variants. Gärtner’s experiments suggest direct action of pollen, but CD thinks it is "mere variation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Mar? 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459)
Summary:
JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 246
Summary:
Informs CD on age of land, freshwater, and marine Mollusca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS MM.16.128
Summary:
Describes proceedings of government aid distribution committee meeting. JH's letter was so well-received JH was elected committee member. Asks JH to write example-illustrated report of resolutions and to be committee's orator.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Booth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.194
Summary:
Council of Society of Arts would like JH's support for their new scheme of examinations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 160: 174
Summary:
Reports on breeding experiments with various seeds: corn, aubergine, kidney beans, sugar-peas. Speculates that cause of changes in seed colour in sugar-peas may be mere variation rather than result of impregnation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Olivia M. Jones
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 7
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/131, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1856 March 8
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/28, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 283
Summary:
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125)
Summary:
Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.
Promises to publish on the species question.
Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project