From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Aug–Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473)
Summary:
Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1858
Source of text:
DAR 181: 26
Summary:
Bees’ cells; is the hexagonal shape deliberate or merely the result of lateral pressure on cylinders?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.156)
Summary:
Has finished arranging his pigeons’ skeletons. May consult TCE on them.
CD is at work on an abstract of his conclusions on species and varieties [Origin]. His "bigger book" [Natural selection] will take two or three more years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
4 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A53–4
Summary:
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Harriet Jane or Julia Moore
Date:
4th Aug 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/3/863-4, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
4th. August 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/258; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2365-6; MS JT/5/11/1330-1, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
4th. August 1858.
Source of text:
63902-974E-10-51; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1934-6, BL; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 Aug 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4084-6; 5:3495, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
4th. Aug. 1858
Source of text:
63902-874E-10, BL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
5 August 1858
Source of text:
MM/21/7, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 246
Summary:
Working on abstract, which now is to consist of a number of sections each to be read at Linnean Society and to be published as a unit. Has finished section on variation under domestication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.313
Summary:
Has not heard from him for a long time. Hopes all is well. Elizabeth Baily has had a stroke but is slowly mending. Arthur Baily has committed suicide. His own wife and children are at the seaside. Hopes JH or one of his daughters will write soon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[8 August 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0224; Reel 1054
Summary:
R.S.L. committee for considering continuance of magnetic observations has recommended that hourly observations be carried out at Falkland Islands, Newfoundland, and Vancouver Island. Alternate stations are Ceylon and Bermuda. Will not print all observations. Hopes colonial governments will participate. JH and William Whewell will be at [B.A.A.S. meeting in] Leeds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Humphrey Lloyd
Date:
[8 August 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0755.2; Reel 1089
Summary:
R.S.L. committee recommends continuing three magnetic observatories at Falkland Islands, Newfoundland, and Vancouver Island.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1858 August 10
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/35; MS JT/1/TYP/1/25, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Aug 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 245
Summary:
Thanks JDH for stylistic corrections on MS of large and small genera.
Observations, while walking along headlands, on thistle-down blown out to sea and then blown inland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 Aug 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4147; 5:3497, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Aug [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a)
Summary:
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Moore
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1858
Source of text:
DAR 171: 232
Summary:
Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Auguste de la Rive
Date:
12th. Aug. 1858
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/373; MS JT/1/TYP/1/357, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project