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From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 246
Summary:

How did CD handle his sons’ expenses at Cambridge?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
[18–22 Oct 1865]
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (30 March 2017)
Summary:

Handwritten extract from Origin 3d ed., p. 514.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Summary:

AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.

Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.

Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046)
Summary:

Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 and 28 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 277
Summary:

Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.

Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.

On Wallace; anthropology.

H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].

W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 173: 30
Summary:

Returns a paper which he has looked over.

Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 16
Summary:

Thanks for autograph [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865) no. 262] and corrections of HK’s biographical sketch of CD [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865): 82–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
25–6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146)
Summary:

Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.

News of family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 43
Summary:

Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/56)
Summary:

Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 45
Summary:

CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
18 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/83, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
20 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/90, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
Alfred Smee
Date:
20 October 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/91, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
4 October 1865
Source of text:
Williams et al. (1971), 2: 1022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
16 October 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Helen E. A. Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.149
Summary:

Her mother is suffering from inflammation of the eyes so is unable to reply to his kind letter. Her father had a warm regard for his old friends.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.33
Summary:

Requests that JH send a few lines for a friend of HK's who is trying to develop a facsimile reproduction system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
J. B. Kearney
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.74
Summary:

Congratulations on the marriage of one of JH's daughters [Maria Sophia]. Well remembers the hours he spent with JH. Has had to struggle for a living. Gives some of his theories on music and light that he will not be able to transmit to print.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.185
Summary:

Sends a copy of the address of the President of the B.A.A.S. at Birmingham, also an Aylesbury newspaper containing the funeral sermon on Admiral W. H. Smyth. Misses Smyth very much. Hopes JH is well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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