Text Online
From:
Alessandro Palagi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Alessandro Palagi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 March 1855
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Alexander Shaw
To:
Henry John Temple
Date:
[7 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1047; Reel 1083
Summary:
Copy [in JH's hand] of doctor's prescription for four to five weeks of bed rest and country air for JH before resuming duties at Mint.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.270
Summary:
Hopes to hear how he is progressing. Looks as though he wanted rest and air. Sends a theorem for his consideration.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Brooke Johnson Brooke (formerly Johnson)
To:
[Francis Charles] [Johnson]
Date:
[March?] [1855]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90.6.5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0555.3; Reel 1093
Summary:
Appointment of JH's successor is delayed by changes in Cabinet. CT spoke to George Lewis, who promised to speak to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple]. Will forward JH's latest note as reminder to Lewis. JH is free to leave London; W. H. Barton is competent to handle JH's duties.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
4 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29)
Summary:
A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.
CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"
Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 126
Summary:
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 25)
Summary:
Thanks THH for corroborating his observations. Discusses metamorphosis of ovaria to cement organs. Ovaries, germinal vesicles, and anatomy of cirripedes. Difficulties of classification, and observation.
THH’s article on Mollusca [Charles Knight, ed., English cyclopædia: a new dictionary of universal knowledge (1854–70) 3: 855–74].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
13 Mar 1855
Source of text:
DAR 93: A25
Summary:
Acknowledges a list [of plants?].
Looks forward to new edition [of British plants growing wild in the parish of Hitcham, Suffolk, 2d ed. (1855)].
JSH should not trouble about Anacharis until he is less busy. Will send cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Henfrey
Date:
17 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
18 [Mar 1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:
CD has been a referee for LH’s Nile geology paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. Praises the work but offers criticism not in his report: Joseph Russegger’s statement about the baked Upper Sandstone deposit cannot be believed; LH’s paper is too long.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
19 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87)
Summary:
Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.
CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.
Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey; Royal Society of London
Date:
19 Mar 1855
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 111)
Summary:
Recommends publication of Leonard Horner’s account of researches in alluvial deposits of Egypt [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. It contains valuable observations which will probably become of still higher value in future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[20 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:
CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Davy
Date:
25 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Box XVII, 210)
Summary:
Will forward JD’s paper to the Royal Society ["On the ova of salmon", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 146 (1856): 21–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Davy
Date:
26 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Box XVII, 210)
Summary:
Discusses JD’s paper ["On ova of salmon"]. His experiments are of particular value regarding power of dispersal and geographical distribution and would make of them a very different subject. Hopes JD can test again the tenacity of life of non-developed ova being less than that of those fully developed – a result which surprised CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
26 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A26–A27
Summary:
Thanks JSH for Anacharis which is flourishing.
P. H. Gosse told him he had several sea animals and algae living in artificial sea-water for over 13 months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
27 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 88)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his offer of assistance in collecting varieties of poultry. Describes his needs. He will raise his own pigeons.
Often doubts whether, despite all help, the problem of species will not overpower him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Miller
Date:
29 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
National Trust for Scotland (Hugh Miller’s Cottage, Cromarty)
Summary:
Requests HM’s article in the Witness [24 Feb 1855; see HM, "On the late severe frost", Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh 1 (1854–8): 10–14], on the effects of frost on shells. CD expresses admiration for the two works by HM he has read.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project