From:
William Angus Knight
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 40
Summary:
Offers CD a room for his forthcoming visit to the BAAS meeting at Dundee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
Date:
20 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 388)
Summary:
Thanks JBEB for seeds of Draba which he will sow next year.
Describes the results of some crossing experiments with Papaver.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.332)
Summary:
Thanks CL for comments [on Variation].
Thinks Pangenesis would be important step in biology if admitted as probable.
Introduction to French edition [of Origin] has injured the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Trimble Rothrock
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 176: 219
Summary:
The two names CD could not read are "Atnah" and "Espyox" [see 5478].
He and George Thurber would like CD’s autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 117
Summary:
On the breeding out of horns in Galloway cattle.
Has a finely graded series linking the dentition of the rhinoceros with that of the Palaeotherium of the Eocene.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Angus Knight
Date:
22 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Knight Collection MA 8601)
Summary:
Will not attend the British Association meeting at Dundee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Date:
24 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.333)
Summary:
Letter recommending V. O. Kovalevsky to a publisher.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 179
Summary:
Discusses coral reefs and sends CD his paper on "Coral reefs present and past" [Cotteswold Club Proc. 4 (1868): 60–74].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
26 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 79
Summary:
Thanks for information on Galloway cattle. [See 5614.]
Interested in WBD’s work on descent of the rhinoceros; is pleased to learn that he does not consider species to be immutable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Philip Mansel Weale
Date:
27 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 48)
Summary:
CD finds the case of Muraltia with irritable stamens curious.
Thanks JPMW for his help with expression queries and would be grateful for any more information. Believes the action of the so-called "grief muscles" is a result of combined action of two muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 118
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
30 [Aug 1867]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (with Rare Book QH9 D25 859)
Summary:
Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 176–7
Summary:
Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.
Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".
Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 Aug [1867-70]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 1
Summary:
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
169, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.241
Summary:
Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.471
Summary:
Thanks for the gift of his poem; it has afforded him great pleasure. Is starting on a tour of South Wales and the West Country.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.437
Summary:
Is grateful for a copy of 'Spaziergang' in Latin verses. Envies JH's varied accomplishments. Fourth edition of his Siluria will be issued in October. Relates how James Croll was appointed a geological surveyor in Scotland.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[21 August 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0462; Reel 1055
Summary:
Apologizes for hurried note sent earlier. Sends correction for JH's version of the 'Well.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0561; Reel 1053
Summary:
Considering severe famine in Orissa province, JH believes that WJH's request for leave to return to England is untimely, particularly because WJH's superior is also leaving. Letter from [C. F.] Montresor speaks highly of WJH's expertise in irrigation. Suggests that WJH stay and help.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
- Airy, George Biddell1
- Arnold, Matthew1
- Bornet, Édouard1
- Bowman, William1
- Darwin, C. R.17
- Dawkins, W. B.2
- De Morgan, Augustus3
- Fresnel, Leonor1
- Harley, Robert1
- Henslow, George2
- Herschel, John5
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Hope, Alexander J. B.1
- Knight, W. A.1
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Murchison, Roderick Impey1
- Murray, Andrew1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Robertson, Patrick Francis1
- Rothrock, J. T.1
- Samuelson, James1
- Secchi, Angelo1
- Selwyn, William1
- Somerville, Mary1
- Stone, Edward James1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Sutton, S.1
- Swinhoe, Robert1
- Wright, Thomas1
- FEWER