From:
Annibal de Gasparis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.49
Summary:
Sending details of his astronomical theories.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.320
Summary:
Regarding George Peacock and his mathematical work. Gives some of his own theories, which he intends publishing. Includes a riddle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.321
Summary:
Would JH extract the dates from his memoir of George Peacock as AD must write something for the R.A.S. Encloses some meteorological queries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 December 1858
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 193, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Balfour Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.236
Summary:
Hopes that JH will express opinion of BS's paper on radiant heat, as recommendation for BS's appointment to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at St. Andrews.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Balfour Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.237
Summary:
Thanks JH for testimonial toward BS's appointment to Chair of Natural Philosophy at St. Andrews. Encloses other testimonials.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
James Brooke
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
12 December 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 JAMES BROOKE
Summary:
Brooke requests a copy of ARW’s papers relating to Sarawak and Sadong. [Wallace, A. R. 1856. Notes of a Journey Up the Sadong River, North-West Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1(6): 193-205.]
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Brooke
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
24 December 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 JAMES BROOKE
Summary:
Brooke returns ARW’s papers relating to Sarawak and Sadong. [Wallace, A. R. 1856. Notes of a Journey Up the Sadong River, North-West Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1(6): 193-205.] He is critical of ARW’s views on the tendency of the Dayaks towards extinction. Brooke is unwell and expresses a “cool” attitude towards the signs of death.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Christian Gerling
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
den 7 Decbr 1858.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/G/3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 250)
Summary:
Has had some misgivings about the memorial but now thinks his fears were vain and cowardly. Regrets R. I. Murchison was not told in advance. His low opinion of the Government and B. Disraeli.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 256
Summary:
Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
8 Dec 1858
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (2 October 2019, lot 258)
Summary:
Sends receipt for £250 6s. 2d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A18, A25–8
Summary:
Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.
Health poor of late.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
12 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.162)
Summary:
Thanks WE for an oriental treatise on pigeons, a paper on poultry, and specimens.
Asks about stripes on shoulders and legs of horses and donkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/28)
Summary:
Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."
Effects of different climates on breeding periods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for some poultry breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 35
Summary:
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[December 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters