From:
Adalbert Adolf Mühry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.375
Summary:
Would like to dedicate to JH a book on climatology that AM is preparing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Anthony Panizzi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 March 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.295
Summary:
Sees by the announcement that he is to be out in April. Is there anything he can do in the way of proof reading? Is preparing answers to 65 queries of S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone) on the decimal coinage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/38, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Ball
To:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
Date:
11 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/37, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.234
Summary:
Sends atmospheric observations to JH before transmission to Admiralty.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 71
Summary:
Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[7 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 26
Summary:
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
10 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:
Asks RP’s help in procuring a specimen of a real Irish rabbit, L. veomicule [Lepus vermicula]?.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 193
Summary:
Separation of sexes in trees [U. S.].
Do plants offer positive evidence for "continuous land" theory?
Protean genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
[after 15 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (8)
Summary:
Urges AG to generalise from his observations on the flora of the northern U. S.
Expected to find separation of sexes in trees because he believes all living beings require an occasional cross, and none is perpetually self-fertilising. The multitude of flowers of a tree would be an obstacle to cross-fertilisation unless the sexes tended to be separate.
The Leguminosae are CD’s greatest opposers; he cannot find that garden varieties ever cross. Could AG inquire of intelligent nurserymen on the subject?
Thanks AG for information on protean genera; much wants to know whether their great variability is due to their conditions of existence or is innate in them at all times and places.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
16 Mar [1857]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (MM4: 39)
Summary:
Would rather not serve on Royal Society committee [for a North American exploring expedition]. Suggests subjects for geological investigation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 192a
Summary:
Ranges of species in large vs small genera: Asa Gray’s compilation fits CD’s expectation.
CD studies seedling mortality in his weed garden.
JDH’s work on Indian flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society
Date:
16 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/39, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
23 March 1857
Source of text:
MM/4/42, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.240
Summary:
Discusses [H. W.] Dove's works regarding rotating storms. New information from Russian observatories gives a more complete understanding of the phenomenon. Has not seen Keith Johnson's new edition of Physical Atlas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ernst Becker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
March 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, bound within letter no.155
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Augustus Gregory]
Date:
5 March 1857
Source of text:
SRNSW: A4110 [An1-3/13], State Records of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
6 March 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 158.For an edited copy of this letter see B57.13.02, pp. 193-9, 225-30. Editorial changes to sense, plant and place names and major omissions only have been noted here
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project