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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
2 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees
Summary:

The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
8 July [1875]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library (Rare Books MSS Acc. 324)
Summary:

Is very interested in JJW’s report on a purple laburnum grafted onto yellow stock which then produces yellow flowers. CD requests racemes to examine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harvard University Library
Date:
2 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library
Summary:

Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Silliman
Date:
29 March 1851
Source of text:
Boston Public Library MS Ch.I.6.32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George M. Towle
Date:
11 December 1860
Source of text:
Boston Public Library MS E.9.4 (65.17)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project