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DCP-LETT-3352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 139
Summary:

Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.

Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
28 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 200)
Summary:

Thanks JL for information about Acropera luteola.

Also thanks for the Gongora; cannot avoid the impression it is male.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3354

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 65, DAR 165: 104–105
Summary:

Discusses dimorphism and suggests CD investigate Valeriana.

Praises CD’s views with respect to the U. S. Civil War and relations with England. Worsening relations between Britain and U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3355

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 168: 56
Summary:

Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3374

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 1, 2a–c
Summary:

Asks CD whether he hears from Asa Gray. JDH’s opinion of the crisis [Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War.

Julius von Haast alludes to glacial drift in Middle Island of New Zealand.

Backwardness of JDH’s son, Willy.

Encloses a reference from Daniel Oliver which may be useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3375

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Dec] 1861 or [6 Jan] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 3–4
Summary:

Glad CD has given up on Acropera ovules.

Doubts phanerogams less different in extreme forms [than Crustacea].

No systematic parallelism between plants and animals.

Offers list of Arctic plants with their colours. Asks CD whether it is useful to add colour to [descriptions of] plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 and 31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 115: 83a
Summary:

Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE531

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Dec 1861
Source of text:
143, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday4109

From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 December 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/122.14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4110

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
4 December 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/122.15-17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4111

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cecilia Anne Barlow
Date:
6 December 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4112

From:
William Crane Wilkins
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 December 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4113

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
13 December 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4114

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Crane Wilkins
Date:
14 December 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4115

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
16 December 1861
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG/4/1/57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10498

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[2 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.375
Summary:

Suggests the name 'Clio' for asteroid No. 59. Gives a list of proposed names for asteroids.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10499

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.376
Summary:

Is grateful for the ample list of suggested names for asteroids that JH has sent. Outlines the difficulties over the name 'Clio'. Would prefer 'Olympia.'. Believes 'Pseudo-Daphna' will be called 'Galatea'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11100

From:
Thomas F. Jamieson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.435
Summary:

Thanks for his note and explanations. Comments on the variation in the height of the Caspian Sea at various periods.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11277

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.180
Summary:

Would like JH's approval to submit the enclosed certificate on behalf of JH's son. No. 29 of the Record of Recreative Science contains a good article on Light by E. J. Lowe, who mentions JH's name.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11806

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.166
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's expression of sympathy over the death of his wife. One of his daughters has left on a ship for England. Sends a work by S. Salomon describing the visit of Prince Alfred to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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