From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
?-3-1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
2nd. March 1857
Source of text:
HS 17.385, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.385 (C: RI 503)
Summary:
Sends sketch of lecture on structure and motion of glaciers. Wants to conduct experiments on physical properties of ice, and applying polarized light. Beyond paper, is interested in cleavage of ice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hannah M. Bouvier
Date:
[2 March 1857]
Source of text:
Huntington Library
Summary:
Thanks for HB's Familiar Astronomy. Praises it as a good introduction to astronomy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 March 3
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.157; MS JT 1/TYP/1/19; MS JT/1/A/29, RGO; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.304
Summary:
JH's letter of recommendation for C. P. Smyth misdirected. Little time remains for nomination.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 March 4
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.160, RGO
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4th March 1857
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.158-9, RGO; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/38, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James David Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/31; MS JT/1/TYP/1/3941, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 71
Summary:
Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[7 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 26
Summary:
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
7th March 1857.
Source of text:
JDF Incoming letters 1857, no. 33, StA
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
7th. March 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/879; MS JT/1/HTYP/490, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
10 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:
Asks RP’s help in procuring a specimen of a real Irish rabbit, L. veomicule [Lepus vermicula]?.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Tyler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.455
Summary:
Informs JH that he wrote a book on Baconian philosophy inspired by JH's Prelim. Discourse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1857
Source of text:
DAR 181: 35
Summary:
HCW is trying to define what CD means by "variable" genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
11 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/37, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 238
Summary:
Comments on transport of ducks to Jamaica by hurricanes,
fish feeding on seeds,
and sterility of birds in captivity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johns Steven Henslow
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 March 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/79; MS JT/1/TYP/2/490, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project