From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 141
Summary:
CD’s poor health.
Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
25 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58)
Summary:
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 24
Summary:
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037)
Summary:
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hurst & Blackett
Date:
15 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Offers letters to Eliza Meteyard for her book [The life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/9/21, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
24 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/10/71, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Walter White
Date:
9 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/19/124, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Grey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.128
Summary:
At Turners Hill near East Grinstead is a pond, which feeds the Rivers Medway and Ouse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Grey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.129
Summary:
Would be pleased to show JH the pond, but thinks it should be carefully examined before any reference is made to it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[23 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.23
Summary:
Response to some papers sent to R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.49, 54, 55
Summary:
Sending a demonstration of the last theorem of Pierre Fermat, which has been the subject of a prize of the Academy many times. Would like his views on the logic. Arthur Cayley has done everything possible to prevent TK from winning the Academy medal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.50
Summary:
Finds part of his proof was defective, but it makes no difference to the final result.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.51
Summary:
Having sent a bad proof, now sends a sound one.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.53
Summary:
Hopes he glanced at the last words of TK's article on the polyhedra in the R.S.L. Proceedings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.430
Summary:
President of the R.S.L. has suggested that RM should propose Sir Henry Barkly as a fellow. Comments on Barkly's work in geography and geology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.99
Summary:
Will call on W. Bonsey on his way to Devon and may be able to give a valuation of the house and grounds at Slough.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0339.2; Reel 1054
Summary:
Notice of annual election of R.S.L. council and officers on 30 Nov. 1863.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Correspondent
- Airy, George Biddell3
- Anderson, Dr Thomas1
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph2
- Buckle, Emma2
- Béguyer de Chancourtois, Alexandre-Eugène1
- Clarke, Alexander R.1
- Clendon, George, Jr1
- Conway, M. D.2
- Darwin, C. R.17
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Darwin, Emma7
- De Morgan, Augustus1
- Dunkin, Edwin1
- Faraday, Michael1
- Graham, Thomas1
- Gray, Asa1
- Grey, Charles2
- Griffith, George2
- Haast, Julius1
- Herschel, John24
- Hildebrand, Friedrich2
- Hooker, J. D.10
- Howlett, Frederick1
- Hurst & Blackett1
- Jones, Henry Bence1
- Kirkman, Thomas P.4
- Knoblauch, Karl Hermann1
- Kupffer, Adolph Theodor1
- Lubbock, John1
- Matthew, Patrick1
- Murchison, Roderick Impey1
- Nelson, John Henry1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Oliver, Daniel3
- Phillips, John1
- Rolfe, R. M.1
- Sabine, Edward2
- Scott, John2
- Trant, Jr., William2
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyndall, John6
- Wedgwood, Emma7
- White, Walter3
- de La Rue, Warren1
- FEWER