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DCP-LETT-13854

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:

HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2430

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 258)
Summary:

Thanks for THH’s examples of serially modified and homologous parts in Radiata. Cannot understand how he forgot such cases.

Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6438

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.206
Summary:

Is thinking of applying for the position of Observer at the Radcliffe Observatory and would like JH's support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 40
Summary:

Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4853

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.240 (C: RGO 6.377.440)
Summary:

Wants information for the proposed visit to Auvergne. Regarding the motion of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1599

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of the Morning Post
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
Wednesday, March 16, 1859, Morning Post
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 8
Summary:

Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.

Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;

CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2433

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 22
Summary:

Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11111

From:
Alexander K. Johnston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.448
Summary:

His letter and accompanying packet arrived for which accept his best thanks for the valuable contribution to the literature of physical geography. Is gratified by JH's commendation of his own Physical Atlas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1600

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/339, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2434

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477)
Summary:

Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10586

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.464
Summary:

Intends to stand for the University of Cambridge and would be pleased to receive his vote and interest. [Note on JH's reply: Shall have his vote; in any case will not vote against him.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11187

From:
P[hilip] Kelland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.77
Summary:

Royal Society of Edinburgh would like JH to referee a paper on the mean temperature of the earth by J. D. Forbes. Would JH be willing? Sends a little biography of the late Professor Thomas Henderson, who is now nearly forgotten in his native city.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9576

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.317
Summary:

Has requested his publishers to send JH his recent volume on glaciers. Thanks for JH's Physical Geography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1602

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Managers of the Royal Institution
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS AD/03/04, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2419

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 30 (EH 88206479)
Summary:

Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6439

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.207
Summary:

Agrees with what he proposes to express to the Radcliffe Trustees. Capt. W. S. Jacob has retired to this country from India and will also give him his support. Gives address of the secretary of the Radcliffe Trustees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3570

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
[22 March 1859]
Source of text:
St. Andrews 18 (C: RS:HS 23.258)
Summary:

Expresses appreciation for JF's publication on glaciers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1603

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
March 23rd, 1859
Source of text:
RR/4/104, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 120)
Summary:

Is correcting chapters [of Origin] for press.

Health has been wretched of late.

He values fame to a certain extent, but "if I know myself, I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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