From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 160–2
Summary:
Sorrow at loss of his daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 206
Summary:
Condolences on death of JDH’s daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10, 13 and 18 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 109: B122–3
Summary:
Comments on CD’s paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sends specimens of dimorphic and trimorphic Oxalis.
Comments on H. W. Bates’s work [Naturalist on the river Amazons].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 41
Summary:
Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Thomas Warner
Date:
14 Oct [1863]
Source of text:
Mrs Carole Cockett (private collection)
Summary:
On behalf of her father, she asks that his name be put down for James Buckman’s testimonial. His cheque for £2.2.0 is enclosed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 167–70
Summary:
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Oct [1863?]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 78
Summary:
Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]
and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219. 1: 78
Summary:
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[30 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 207
Summary:
Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 172: 40
Summary:
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.385
Summary:
Sees that JH mentions 'the longitude of perihelion on the ecliptic' as one of the elements he would like to have in the case of the small planets. Would like his advice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.386
Summary:
Comments on JH's advice regarding the 'longitude of perihelion in the ecliptic.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.387
Summary:
Explaining some of the signs in the enclosed table. Has sent the Nautical Almanac for 1867.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.388
Summary:
Sending the revision of the first half sheet for the 1867 supplement containing the latest elements of the small planets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Prescott Joule
Date:
[21 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.429
Summary:
Thanks for his paper on amalgams. Regarding the amalgam of iron, he pointed it out many years ago in his Bakerian lecture. Would be interesting to experiment further with iron in solution of mercury.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Prescott Joule
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.430
Summary:
Much obliged for his letters regarding the amalgam of iron. Cannot account for his ignorance of JH's Bakerian lecture.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.79
Summary:
Sends by book post two photographs of the original drawings of the sun's observations, also a photograph of a model of the S.E. portion of the moon; comments on them. Will be pleased to accept JH's invitation to visit Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.80
Summary:
Fine weather is getting rare at this time of year and would therefore like to induce the Herschels to visit him while it lasts.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project