From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 37–42
Summary:
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7)
Summary:
Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.
Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.33
Summary:
Requests that JH send a few lines for a friend of HK's who is trying to develop a facsimile reproduction system.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.454
Summary:
Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.97
Summary:
Asks if JH anticipated the results of W. L. Newman's work on lens curvature.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project