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DCP-LETT-5314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/28)
Summary:

Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."

Effects of different climates on breeding periods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12879

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[19 December 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0289; Reel 1054
Summary:

If only one observer is assigned to Peking, observations could not be conducted. Describes staff and expenses at other magnetic observatories. Edward Sabine's plan to adapt all instruments to photographic self-registering instruments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5844

From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.313
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments on his book on harmony. Explains one of his theories more fully.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel151

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1858]
Source of text:
RGO 6.694.533
Summary:

Given the Treasury stance [see Richard Owen's 1858-12-18], GA sees little point in setting up one station [see JH's 1858-12-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2382

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 128–30
Summary:

Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.

Still regards plant types as older than animal types.

The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3447

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[22 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS MC.5.381
Summary:

Discusses proposal to establish magnetic and meteorological observatories at Peking, Newfoundland, Vancouver, and Falkland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8592

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[22 December 1858]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib. (C: TxU:H/L-0290; Reel 1054 & RS Sa.668)
Summary:

Sends RO a note from G. B. Airy on the inadvisability of having a meteorological observatory in Peking. JH agrees with Airy. When William Whewell arrives for a visit, JH will seek his advice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1424

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.223, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-2384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:

Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.

His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for some poultry breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3588

From:
Balfour Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.237
Summary:

Thanks JH for testimonial toward BS's appointment to Chair of Natural Philosophy at St. Andrews. Encloses other testimonials.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1577

From:
George Gore
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decr. 25/1858
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2385

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 125–6
Summary:

JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7098

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.321
Summary:

Would JH extract the dates from his memoir of George Peacock as AD must write something for the R.A.S. Encloses some meteorological queries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2387

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 398
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9700

From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.49
Summary:

Sending details of his astronomical theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9583

From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.324
Summary:

Circular letter inviting comments on the proposal of the Council of the Society of Arts to hold another exhibition in 1861.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 35
Summary:

Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1579

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1578

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/648, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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