Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1866-08-18]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 613
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 104–5
Summary:
Returns two volumes of Felix Holt [George Eliot (1866)]
and the Coddington [lens].
John Smith will send Drosera.
Nation reports that Louis Agassiz holds that the Amazon Valley was formed since the glacial epoch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
18 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/10)
Summary:
Comments on sheet of EH’s Generelle Morphologie [1866]. In emphasising divergence of character EH shows his clear understanding of CD’s views. It was years before CD saw necessity of divergence.
Interested in Carl Claus [Copepodenfauna von Nizza (1866)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.278
Summary:
Discusses [John] Hennessey's proposal [see ES's 1866-8-11]. Suggests sending achromatic along with a qualified observer. Thinks Alexander Herschel might be suitable for such a post. Melbourne telescope progressing rapidly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.304
Summary:
Thanks for letter and criticism of his own paper. Seems to have misunderstood most of his points. Explains some of his theories on the movement of the earth and tides.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
18 August 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.160, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
18 August 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.161-162, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
This is a second letter sent on the same day by Joseph Hooker to Sir Henry Barkly.
Contributor:
Hooker Project