From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 251
Summary:
CD declines to write Lyell éloge [for Copley Medal] because of his ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Pearson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 77: 148
Summary:
Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 255
Summary:
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Egan
Date:
25 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.161)
Summary:
Thanks JE for information about striped horses.
Says John Lindley wants to know about Hungarian horticulture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
25 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/41)
Summary:
Thanks for HS’s Essays: [scientific, political, and speculative, vol. 1 (1858)]. Admires his general argument for the development theory.
CD is preparing an abstract on change of species. He treats subject as a naturalist, not from a general point of view. Otherwise he might have quoted HS’s argument to great advantage.
CD particularly liked articles on music and style. Expression is a favourite topic with CD. Agrees all expression is biological.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Wells
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 77: 146
Summary:
Replies to CD’s question on whether beans in first or second year were planted near any other varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
27 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
Scriptorium (dealers) (1982)
Summary:
"I thank you much for your note. The object, of course, is what you say. I did not guess that I shd have to pay so much per hen to Baker & the experiment would not be at all worth such a sum. I have not a single hen worth sending to Steven’s. If it really will not cost you much trouble, & you could get me some Hens & a young Spanish cock of pure breed . . . I will try to experiment and shall be very heartily obliged to you". CD mentions satisfactory local hens of a particular breed and an experiment being conducted on "Silver Barbs [with] black wing bars & white rump or bar at end of tail".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 258
Summary:
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 31
Summary:
Sends WED a bank draft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
26 November 1858
Source of text:
MM/10/80, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.462
Summary:
Regarding the reasons for the confusion in the nomenclature of the genus Wellingtonia and Sequoia. Comments on the aquatic Anacharis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[17 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.4
Summary:
Agrees to write memoir [of George Peacock], but this will take some time as he is taking son [John] to Southampton to leave for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
[George Gabriel Stokes]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/TR63
Summary:
Thanks for paper on magnetism, and other minor matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.462
Summary:
WS's brother-in-law [George Peacock] has died after an illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[23 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.154 (C: RS:HS 23.246)
Summary:
Urges renewal of high balloon ascents with periodic observations both to further knowledge of law of decrement of temperature and pressure and for 'ulterior investigations.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.153
Summary:
Before meeting of Balloon Committee, requests JH's opinion on value of renewing balloon ascents.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Augustus Severn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.192
Summary:
Having outgrown his self-built telescope, hopes to borrow a larger 'metal' from JH, or to obtain from JH William Herschel's method for polishing telescopes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.238 (C: RGO 6.694.517)
Summary:
Encloses copy of a letter addressed to GA from Toronto University (dated 30 October 1858 and stating that the Toronto Observatory has not been closed in spite of what the R.S.L. and B.A.A.S. joint committee have stated). Difficulties because of Edward Sabine's illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.239 (C: RS:HS 23.248 & C: RGO 6.694.519)
Summary:
Giving reply for GA to send to Toronto. Is grieved to hear of Edward Sabine's illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.310
Summary:
Had no idea that JH had written on sound. Sends him an abstract of his book on harmony. Explains various aspects of chords and their notation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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- Clausius, Rudolf1
- Collins, Matthew1
- Cook, John Douglas1
- Darwin, C. R.29
- Darwin, W. E.2
- De Morgan, Augustus1
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- Ellis, William1
- Encke, Johann Franz1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gray, Asa1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, John23
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie2
- Hooker, J. D.9
- Hooker, W. J.1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Leighton, W. A.2
- Lubbock, John1
- Pearson, John (a)1
- Photographic News1
- Rolfe, R. M.1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Selwyn, William1
- Severn, Henry Augustus1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Stokes, George Gabriel1
- Sykes, William Henry2
- Tegetmeier, W. B.2
- Thomson, William1
- Tyndall, John5
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