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DCP-LETT-4797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
27 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3)
Summary:

Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.

Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,

Rocky Mt. wingless insects,

willow hybrids,

galls,

and other subjects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.

WBT’s excellent article on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4799

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 9
Summary:

University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4800

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 81
Summary:

He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.

He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.

Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4801

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135)
Summary:

Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.

Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4802

From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 175
Summary:

It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4803

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 62, 66
Summary:

WBT’s eye is getting on very well.

Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10513

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.390
Summary:

Regarding the comet seen at Melbourne (Australia), may be the 1843 comet discussed by JH in his Outlines Astr. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10514

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.391
Summary:

Further regarding the southern comet; does not think it can be the 1843 one until he receives further observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11522

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.437
Summary:

Took JH's box of specimens and had a discussion with William Logan, A. C. Ramsay, and some young surveyors, one of whom had examined JH's neighborhood. Similar rhomboids to the Irish ones have been located in Wales. Hopes to have a discussion on this subject later. Can JH give, or refer him to data, the temperature of celestial space without the sun? Returns the drawings with many thanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12067

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.433
Summary:

Sends a Memoir of W. E. Hickson for JH's views so that he can communicate the paper to the Royal Geographical Society. Regarding a maritime expedition to the North Pole. There never has been a North Pole Expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12149

From:
Thomas Mackereth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.6
Summary:

Thanks for kind information regarding Christopher Hansteen. Will obtain a copy of the Admiralty Manual to read JH's paper on meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12964

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 March 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0377; Reel 1054
Summary:

Objects to plan to move Royal Observatory to site other than Greenwich, but will defer to G. B. Airy's opinion. JH's deteriorating health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1508

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[5 March 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.12 (C: RS:HS 11.438 & 24.98 & 24.99)
Summary:

Comments on why JH gave 239 degrees F as the temperature of space. Geological specimens may be given to the Geological Society or to the Jermyn Street Museum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2036

From:
Eliza Susan Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.279
Summary:

Sends tributes to memory of her father [Josiah Quincy]. Discusses [James] Grahame and [George] Bond, who both have died. Also mentions Harvard Observatory and American Civil War.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2037

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Susan Quincy
Date:
[31 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.280 (C: RS:HS 24.102)
Summary:

Thanks her for photograph of EQ's late father [Josiah Quincy]. Glad [George] Bond knew he was awarded R.A.S. Medal before his death. Notes the generations of mankind are 'unequal.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2425

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.274
Summary:

Asks whether Greenwich Board of Visitors should meet to answer communication from Admiralty or if a response could be circulated among Visitors and sent if it meets with approval.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2426

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.275
Summary:

Visitors Board will meet to discuss railway companies' proposal to remove Greenwich Observatory to another site. Includes copy of Warren de La Rue's letter to ES.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2975

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #39 q 39a
Summary:

Lists works sent to JH. Discusses hypothesis concerning meteors and the atmosphere. Mentions his work 'Sur la physique du globe.' Cites Mr. Bravais. Attaches note sent to AQ by Royal Academy of Brussels, listing works JH should have received. Encloses list of errata for the Bulletin de l'académie royale de belgique, ser. 2, 15, No. 6.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3095

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.260
Summary:

Lists works JH should have received. Asks JH to take another look in his library. Has received more on meteors. Sees no objection to a higher terrestrial atmosphere. Will send Histoire des sciences mathématique et physique chez les belges.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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