Text Online
From:
Thorley, Emily
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[1864–5?]]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1634
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B17
Summary:
Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Summary:
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:
[No informatiion about content.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Jan 1864
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Summary:
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Jane Moore
Date:
1864
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 466-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864-1 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0602.2; Reel 1089
Summary:
Encloses copy of JH's essay entitled The Yard, the Pendulum, & the Metre... (1863). Speculates on causes for deviation in pendulum measurements. Recommends using torsion gravimeters in 'proposed operation.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[G. Wharton Simpson?]
Date:
[1864 to 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0745; Reel 1089
Summary:
If enclosed item is accepted for publication in Photographic News, JH wants to inspect its press, especially 'as respects the Cipher,' and to receive 25 copies.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.8
Summary:
Reports on G. B. Airy's analysis [R.S.P.T., 153,. 617-] of 177 magnetic storms.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. R. H.[?]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.155
Summary:
Asks that consideration be given to 'wishes of the Cadet' in selecting a regiment for him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.2
Summary:
In response to the gift of a book, JH comments on the philosophy of knowledge, and goes on to say that JH agrees with [John Stuart ?] Mill's rejection of the syllogism as a means of argument. In the postscript, JH comments on the nature of heat.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.14
Summary:
About geodesic books and JH's encouragement to John to keep asking questions; indeed JH is almost insistent on son John's writing to JH with questions, book needs, and confidences. JH also talks about finding the arithmetical mean of a number of observations. [Also included is the 1st page of a letter to John from one of his sisters.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.257-258, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.259, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A letter to Miels Berkeley from Joseph Hooker thanking him for information about G. Baker and mentioning that they had recently been to see Dr John Paget for a diagnosis.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/503, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[George Bentham]
Date:
1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Maxwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1864
Source of text:
MEL 1510109, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Maxwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1864
Source of text:
MEL 9035, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Addressee
- Bates, Henry Walter1
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph2
- Darwin, C. R.1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- H.[?], H. R.1
- Hanbury, Daniel1
- Helmholtz, Hermann1
- Herschel (son), John1
- Julian1
- Lubbock, John1
- Moore, Harriet Jane1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von2
- Unidentified2
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- [Bentham, George]1
- [R.S.L. Council]1
- [Simpson?, G. Wharton]1
- FEWER