From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 156
Summary:
Suggests CD consult George Busk about his stomach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[25–6 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 32
Summary:
Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.
Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.
Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Goodsir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 74
Summary:
Has found no Sarcina on the slides of fluid [see 4272] and nothing referable to the food. Will repeat examination if vomiting recurs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 57)
Summary:
Discusses methods of pollination in orchids.
Thinks RT should investigate Physianthus to see if it requires insect aid for fertilisation as the Asclepiadaceae do.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[after 27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 172
Summary:
[Roland] Trimen of the Cape of Good Hope sends evidence that a moth [Achaea chamaeleon] is capable of perforating the skin of a peach with its delicate proboscis. Have any readers observed moths or butterflies sucking any fruit of which the skin was not previously broken?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 205
Summary:
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Goodsir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 75
Summary:
The phial of fluid sent by CD is acid. Sends his microscopical examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 11
Summary:
Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.
Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.
Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 17
Summary:
HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 378
Summary:
Discusses and suggests treatments for CD’s stomach complaint. Recommends he consult William Brinton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Crawfurd
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 237, 237/1
Summary:
Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
25 Aug 1863
Source of text:
HS 16.371, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Robert Mallet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Aug 1863
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 174, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
James Hall Nasmyth
To:
Faraday
Date:
6 August 1863
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
7 August 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 August 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/138
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 August 1863
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 August 1863
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
14 August 1863
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 458
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Crum
Date:
19 August 1863
Source of text:
GCA MS TD 1073/10/8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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