From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 73
Summary:
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B35
Summary:
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 239–40
Summary:
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 245
Summary:
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 235–6
Summary:
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B25–6
Summary:
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Summary:
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 190
Summary:
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 237–8
Summary:
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Sept 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 34–6a
Summary:
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 8
Summary:
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 or 28] Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 275
Summary:
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
30 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9)
Summary:
Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.
Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
18 September 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/205, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Hill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.192
Summary:
The Directors of the Andersonian University (Glasgow) have made a mistake in not appointing JH's son [Alexander]. What is his son doing now as they would like him to lecture.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry James
Date:
[30 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.276 & 24.122
Summary:
Regrets delay in acknowledging his Notes on the Great Pyramid; it was due to a temporary loss of the work. Finds HJ's theory on the inclination of the passages very practical. Comments on the accuracy of the pyramid builders.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter Martyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.23
Summary:
Is now reading JH's article on Light in the May number of Good Words. Gives his own physiological and phrenological cause of color blindness and cites an example in the Rev. F. Drew.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[10 September 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0731; Reel 1089
Summary:
Confirms receipt of journals sent to JH by LQ. Calculations of probabilities for shots to hit targets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Darwin, C. R.5
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Dawes, William Rutter1
- De Morgan, Augustus3
- Haast, Julius von1
- Hamilton, William Edwin1
- Henslow, F. H.3
- Herschel, John8
- Hill, Thomas1
- Hooker, F. H.3
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Maclear, Thomas1
- Martyn, Peter1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Syme, James1
- Toynbee, Ellen1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wyman, Jeffries1
- FEWER