From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
24 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 152
Summary:
Thanks WT for information about rudimentary parts in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 127–8
Summary:
Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.
Uniform climates are poor in species.
Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 287
Summary:
Discusses the South American mission.
Has been busy digging out fossil leaves from local Eocene deposits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 310, 310b
Summary:
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 114
Summary:
Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].
Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 129–30
Summary:
Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.
Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John William Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 12
Summary:
JWS is seeking financial help. He is in debt and struggling and wonders if there is any paid service he might perform for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
31 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.
Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?
Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.
Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11)
Summary:
Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.
Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
26 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 57–58)
Summary:
Requests a change in text [of ch. 12 of Origin: "Geographical distribution"] owing to recent observations of Albert Günther on the marine faunas of the eastern and western shores of South and Central America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Dec 1866
Source of text:
156, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Clement M. Ingleby
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.267
Summary:
Was interested to read in JH's Familiar Lectures the chapter on sensorial vision; has been subject himself to the phenomenon described by JH. Queries one of the statements and would like verification from JH on this point.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Elias Loomis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.310
Summary:
Is indebted to JH for a number of scientific memoirs, including the General Catalogue of Nebulae and the tract on Physical Geography, both of which he highly esteems. Sends via the Smithsonian his own pamphlet on the Aurora Borealis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.340
Summary:
Sends some queries regarding meteor showers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Joseph Lowe
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.341
Summary:
Did not mean to say that meteors describe an exact circle round the sun. Comments on the phenomena of meteors.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.174
Summary:
Reports a second failure over the [Samuel] Parlby affair. Buried Ellen last Thursday. Unemployment and lack of food at Cape owing to the financial difficulties of the government. Difficulties over the standards now.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.175
Summary:
Sending a further section to be added to the Arc of Meridian. Comments on Nicolas Lacaille's work on the meridian. Has cherished memories of thirty years previous to this time of the year.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.257
Summary:
Sends proof sheet on the mathematics of representation. Intends to print in full JH's letter to Mrs. Drummond. Has not yet received information regarding the measuring bars as T. A. Larcom is busy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.258
Summary:
Sends the last sheet of the Memoir that will be necessary for JH to see. Sheets on the measuring bars are held in abeyance.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. Masters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.25
Summary:
Giving details of the meteors that fell recently.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project