From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 70
Summary:
Explains several monstrous flowers sent by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
20 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 169: 13
Summary:
Thanks for autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Hutton Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 33
Summary:
Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.
Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c
Summary:
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 283
Summary:
BJS’s health much improved by his continental tour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 110
Summary:
Sends Nepenthes laevis.
Wallace for the Royal Medal is a good thought.
W. H. Harvey is at Kew and JDH has asked him about desert climbers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
20 September 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/36, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
7 September 1864
Source of text:
Torquay Natural History Society MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
10 September 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
13 September 1864
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Pyke Hullah
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 September 1864
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.143
Summary:
Will be very glad to send his paper to the gentlemen concerned, but encloses their names and addresses in case JH wishes to send direct.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George C. Hodgkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.417
Summary:
Tried Kew and the Admiralty for actinometers but had to obtain one from Henry Barrow in the end, which was broken en route. Thinks these are too fragile for mountain climbing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George C. Hodgkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.418
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's reply. Gives reasons why he was looking for smaller and more portable instruments to take with him to the Alps.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Stanley Jevons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.320
Summary:
JH's statement regarding scientific inquiry and religion seems to him invaluable, and he agrees with it entirely.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
N. de Khanikoff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.80
Summary:
Would like to visit JH, together with his friend Dr. P. H. A. Moritz, Director of the Observatory at Tiflis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.431
Summary:
Introducing two Russians, N. de Khanikoff and P. H. A. Moritz, who would like to visit JH. They are interested in making a magnetic survey of Georgia and RM has written a letter supporting their claims to the Grand Duke Michael. Meeting was marred by the death of J. H. Speke. Now on their way to Bristol.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[5 September 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0458; Reel 1055
Summary:
JH's India [H.E.I.C.] investments. Looking forward to seeing John [Herschel; son of JH] when he returns on leave.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.211
Summary:
Acknowledgement of order from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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