From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 21
Summary:
Is trying to find a tutor for WED.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 16: 223
Summary:
He was unaware that varieties occurred proportionately more in large genera.
Recommends a work [Leonard Gyllenhaal, Insecta Suecica, 4 vols. (1808–27)] for tabulating varieties.
Lists "close geographical representatives of Europaean species" based on the species numbers [in T. V. Wollaston, Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of Madeira (1857)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
1 Nov 1857
Source of text:
120, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Michel Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.254
Summary:
Has finished his essay and returns to the subject of gold. Cites articles.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.14
Summary:
Is willing to have his review sent on to the author, [C. P.] Smyth; asks GS to send the R.S.L.'s copy of Keith Johnson's Physical Atlas to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[1 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.151 & 23.212
Summary:
Wishes all success to his proposed visit to Malta. Has been able to find the volumes of R.A.S.M.N. Comments on WL's system of levers for his telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
2 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/42)
Summary:
Has TCE observed whether hybrids of Chinese and common forms [of geese] were wilder, or less tame, than both parents?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.328
Summary:
Regarding a suitable engraving of William Herschel to be added to William Walker's engraving of a meeting at the Royal Institution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Walter Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
November 3rd 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1921, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 192
Summary:
Responds to CD’s article on kidney beans [Collected papers 1: 275–7]. Sends beans as evidence of crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 6
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/42; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1310, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
Nov. 7. 1857
Source of text:
MSS.Add.7655/II/13; Add.7655/II/221, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[1857-11-8 or earlie
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Has heard WS is publishing an English translation of François Arago's astronomical writings. Urges against including Arago's lectures if the Italian translation is indicative of their level of accuracy. Lists numerous errors in that edition. [Marked 'not sent.' Note added to CDraft (RS:HS 25.13.13) states: 'A letter differently worded but noting some of these points, but not all (for particular reasons) if I remember right was sent.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.213
Summary:
Pleased that WS included François Arago's lectures in his compilation. Believes the Italian edition could have been better edited. Remarks on the Leviathan problem.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Keith Murray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.62
Summary:
Is pleased that JH approves of the photographs. Previously purchased W. H. Smyth's equatorial, the tube and object-glass made by [Thomas?] Cooke. Had a visit from Smyth recently and he advised WM to prepare a paper for the R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 11.2: 65a
Summary:
Sends drawings of two forms of workers of Cryptocerus discocephalus in response to CD’s request for examples of insects whose workers show disparity of form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.304
Summary:
Has the proofs. Gives some queries concerning them.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[11 November 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0453; Reel 1055
Summary:
Sends £100 check for JS.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.152
Summary:
Thanks for his suggestions respecting the mode of observation by collimator; will give it careful consideration. Sends two photographs of the method of mounting his observation tower.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 14 November 1857, p. 779
Summary:
Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project