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DCP-LETT-3094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
20 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Summary:

Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
22 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether WBT will read over his MS sketch on poultry when done.

Wants rabbit specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241)
Summary:

Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 4 (EH 88205988); Christie’s Images (Christie’s (dealers) 11 November 1998, lot 30)
Summary:

CD will publish on Primula [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Will DO ask W. H. Fitch to make woodcuts of "pin" and "non-pin" primroses [i.e., long-styled and short-styled forms]? Encloses a sketch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.

Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.

Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 92
Summary:

Henslow is dying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 93
Summary:

H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".

H. C. Watson’s hostility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to read MS.

Outlines poultry breeding experiment he would like to see tried.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3103F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[28 Mar – 14 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
Max Rambod (dealer) (February 2008)
Summary:

Asks for some unspecified items to be sent to him. The Half-lop [rabbit] should be killed, but without damaging the skull. Has not opened the box with skulls yet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3104

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 62
Summary:

Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.

Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.

Sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001428

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
26 March 1861
Source of text:
MM/19/25, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10924

From:
Alexander K. Isbister
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.270
Summary:

Would like to reprint JH's paper 'On the Projection of the Sphere' in their Educational Times. Can he supply a reduced diagram?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12239

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.96
Summary:

Thanks for the case of wine. Saw Alexander Herschel this morning and is getting some information from him. Has been on board the Warrior.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1305

From:
G. P. Gutehingt[?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1861-3-29 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.87j
Summary:

The Churchwardens of Hawkhurst are inviting JH to the Easter dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1401

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.44
Summary:

About a request of JH for some palladium from the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1402

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.45
Summary:

Note to accompany sending of palladium [see GS's 1861-3-14].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1403

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[22 March 1861]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H698
Summary:

Thanks for the palladium [see GS's 1861-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14254

From:
Frederic W. Ragg
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1861 to 1865]-3-23
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0432; Reel 1093
Summary:

Claims to have demonstrated that light intensity increases as distance from light source increases. Applies this to inner planets, where sun should appear dimmer than on Earth. [JH annotation: 'Frivolous & Vexatious.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2024

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.56
Summary:

Thanks JH for a memoir on the projection of a sphere. Expresses the wish that map-making, so neglected, be taken up thoroughly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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