From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 391
Summary:
List of most anomalous Leguminosae [from George Bentham].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James R. Garrett
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
1 Dec 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 232
Summary:
Discusses the transport of seeds by birds. William Thompson received letters on this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport of seeds by birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 158
Summary:
JDH’s "grand speech" on receiving the Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 159
Summary:
Is Bentham’s list of aberrant genera biased by exclusion of genera with many species?
JDH’s belief that Aquilegia varieties are one species is consistent with their great interfertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Saba Smith; Saba Holland
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011)
Summary:
Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 388–90
Summary:
Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.
Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 [Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 148
Summary:
Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.
Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.
Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Turnbull
Date:
12 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 3 (EH 88206055)
Summary:
Thanks for subscription to Down Coal and Clothing Club, whose finances are improving.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
25 Dec 1854
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/83)
Summary:
Discusses his account. Mentions health of children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.19
Summary:
Sends JH a copy of a recent issue of the Athenaeum in which falsehoods, copied from a Richard Sheepshanks pamphlet, have been printed. CB wants JH to respond to, and correct, these falsehoods quickly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[15 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.20
Summary:
Refuses to become a partisan in this conflict [see CB's 1854-12-13]. JH would only become involved if he felt he could be a peacemaker.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Drury Harness
Date:
[21 December 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0185.5; Reel 1054
Summary:
Results of recent pyx trial.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Bentley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.80
Summary:
Asks JH for the manuscript of Lieut. Burton's travels, which was forwarded by way of JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Bentley
Date:
[18 December 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.81
Summary:
In response to RB's letter of 1854-12-15, JH states that the manuscript of Lieut. Burton's travels was not given to JH for transmission, JH has never heard of RB in connection with this manuscript, nor had JH received an earlier letter, and finally JH does not have the manuscript.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Edward Wolstenholme Ward]
Date:
[1854-12 to 1855-4]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0674; Reel 1089
Summary:
Forwards copies of Treasury minutes and duplicate original authorizing Sydney branch mint to begin circulating Australian sovereigns and half sovereigns. Please advise JH of dies needed for 1856. [JH annotation to printer concerning arrangements of documents.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[20 December 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0712; Reel 1089
Summary:
Mint salaries and bills have exhausted present funds. Please ask Treasury for another £12,000.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Cottans & Hallen, Engineers
Date:
[21 December 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0713.1; Reel 1089
Summary:
Forwards letter from J. Triskett. Send to JH engineering design and cost estimate for iron gates and railings to be used for security at new mint building in Sydney. Then deliver materials to W. O. Young for shipment to Australia.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1854]
Source of text:
RGO 6.375.308
Summary:
Appear to be answers to specific queries about examinations and tutors [at Cambridge?].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.7
Summary:
Talks about their son Alexander's nature, and JH's busy weekend and headaches.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Louisa Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.9
Summary:
Tells his daughter about a formal occasion for weighing gold in the presence of various officials and guilds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project