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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 June 1855
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.09
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 11 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/47, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 July 1855
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I058
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.78
Summary:
Visits Angelo Secchi at Rome observatory, where they are comparing information in Cape Results to their observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 February 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 416
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 418
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 November 1855
Source of text:
UB MS NS 420
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Rice Crowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 222
Summary:
Forwards two specimens of beans found on north coast of Norway.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
César Mansuète Despretz
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 November 1855
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Dana, J. D. 1853)
Summary:
Responds to CD’s criticism of his use of word "Kingdom" in discussing geographical distribution of Crustacea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
1 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/3)
Summary:
Thanks FG for book [The art of travel (1855)].
Is looking for a house in London for a month.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D21)
Summary:
Reports that his intercession with Folliott Baugh [Rector of Chelsfield, Kent] has had no effect. Baugh still believes Farnborough’s rights have not been attended to if entire fund is applied to the school at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.110)
Summary:
Discusses views of Daniel Sharpe on foliation and cleavage. Recalls his own previous discussion [in South America].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.111)
Summary:
Has found a house on Baker Street to take for a month.
Mentions Daniel Sharpe’s study of the Grampians.
Association of various metamorphic rocks and relationship of their foliation to their dip and strike. Discusses foliation of schists and its origin. Comments on fluidity of gneiss and schists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
15 [Jan 1855]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D22)
Summary:
CD called on Baugh but found him adamant; he has already laid the case before the [Charity] Commissioners and if necessary will take it to a Court of Equity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[21 Jan – 11 Feb 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.112)
Summary:
Relationship of schists to alternating beds of slate in western Tierra del Fuego and the Chonos Islands.
Comments on Sharpe’s theory of curved cleavage planes.
Example of metamorphosis in a "clay-slate porphyry region". Importance of previous lines of cleavage and stratification in foliation of metamorphosed rock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376)
Summary:
Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.
Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town
Summary:
Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.
Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
28 Feb 1855
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, pp. 254–5
Summary:
Pleased to hear that SC is prospering.
News of FitzRoy, Sulivan and J. L. Stokes.
The Crimean War is badly mismanaged, but Englishmen are behaving nobly.
Wishes he knew what to do with his boys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence 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
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- Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project14
- Brigitte Stenhouse2
- Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project55
- Darwin Correspondence Project189
- Darwin Family Letters2
- Faraday Project147
- Henslow Correspondence Project50
- Hooker Project10
- John Herschel Project179
- Royal Society8
- The Linnean Society of London20
- Tyndall Project155