From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[June 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 222b
Summary:
Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.
Individual variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1857
Source of text:
DAR 8: 47bA
Summary:
Comments on species with disjoined ranges; does not feel, despite CD’s expectations, that they tend to belong to small families.
Gives the proportion of U. S. trees in which the sexes are separate [see Natural selection, p. 62].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 June 1857
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.122, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 199
Summary:
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
2 June [1857]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 84)
Summary:
Supports nomination of John Lindley for award of Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 200
Summary:
"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.
CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.
Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 201
Summary:
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jacob Gijsbertus Samuel van Breda
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 7 juin 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/125, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.200
Summary:
Has heard that he is now residing at Collingwood and sends two papers for his perusal. Is the sketch correct? Also encloses two specimen pages of his forthcoming catalogue.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 June [1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146)
Summary:
Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].
Mentions African dog’s skin.
Asks about colours of horses
and about variation in tracheae of male birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Tuesday | June 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/963, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[9 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.203
Summary:
Willing to write article if Quarterly [Review] will publish it, if he may take his time writing, and if ES will provide aid regarding meteorology and magnetism.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[10 June 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.204
Summary:
On magic squares.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 13 June 1857]
Source of text:
Gloucestershire Archives (T. C. Morton deposit D1021/8/4)
Summary:
Requests information from readers on breeding of dun or mouse-coloured ponies with a dark stripe down their backs. Must one or both parents be dun?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Bridport Becher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 June 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0072; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sends copy of proposed warrant of appointments to Board of Visitors of Royal Observatory. Asks JH to make alterations and forward these to John Wrottesley by [17 June].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 June 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/473, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Sunday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1895, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Jules Lissajous
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 Juin 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/25, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 14th, 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/233, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 207: 20
Summary:
Sends a reference to Subularia which bears on a query CD made some time ago [see 2002]. Subularia was seen to flower in the air in a remarkably dry season.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
