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DCP-LETT-5035

From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 271
Summary:

Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5036

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 155
Summary:

Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5037

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18–30 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 156
Summary:

Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5038

From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 71
Summary:

Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5038F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
23 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Raab Collection (dealer) (June 2014)
Summary:

Thanks for the paper on Sterrha (McLachlan 1865).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5039

From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 280
Summary:

Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert Müller
Date:
28 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
Summary:

Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5041

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329
Summary:

Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
31 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4)
Summary:

Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5043

From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 281
Summary:

Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5077

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 68
Summary:

Asks to visit Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5078

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:

Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
2 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees
Summary:

The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10357

From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.239
Summary:

Is writing an article on the life and work of George Boole and would like JH's advice on one of D. F. Gregory's references.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10358

From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.240
Summary:

Has not had time to finish the George Boole paper, but the biographical part is in print. Will send him the complete article when it is finished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
1866-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.149
Summary:

Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10396

From:
Wilfred Heeley
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
13 March [1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.275
Summary:

Is Secretary of a committee for advising on Indian weights and measures and would welcome any reports and pamphlets by WH's father [note on verso stating the letter has been passed to his father].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10796

From:
Helen E. A. Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.150
Summary:

Expressing the thanks of her mother for signing the memorial.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10842

From:
Thomas Hill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.193
Summary:

Has his note of the 19th and also saw JH's son [Alexander] for a few minutes yesterday. Agrees that JH's son should not become a candidate until he has given the lectures. Hopes to see him at Merrylea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10979

From:
William Stanley Jevons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.324
Summary:

Intends to apply for a professorship at Owens College and would like to use JH's letter as a testimonial. Would also like to send a copy of this letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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