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DCP-LETT-6391

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 46
Summary:

Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles W Nunn
Date:
25 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.355)
Summary:

Thanks CWN for specimen. CD has sent it to Hooker for examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 93–5
Summary:

Sends an ear of wheat with two florets of oats growing out of it. Expects it will all turn out a humbug.

Berkeley’s address in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1868): 920, also Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7] praises CD tremendously.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
28 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.343)
Summary:

Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.

Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6396

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 235
Summary:

The wheat and oat specimen has been examined "in congress" by Oliver, Bentham, Asa Gray, and JDH. No organic connection of any kind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6397

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 19
Summary:

The election of 1868.

Remarkable deflection of the plummet observed east of Forres.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6398

From:
Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 224
Summary:

Sends some answers to CD’s queries on expression, based on his observations of Abyssinians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6399

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 86
Summary:

Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6401

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 208
Summary:

CD’s doctrines apply to man’s mental organisation, but the soul is a different matter. Cites Dean Henry Alford, M. J. Berkeley, and Prof. [J. F.?] Ferrier.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6405

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 237
Summary:

Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6907

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 229–30
Summary:

Thinks J. D. Hooker and Asa Gray will not be able to visit Down until after the 12th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7047

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B73
Summary:

Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.

Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE330

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
26 Sep 1868
Source of text:
HS 16.377, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE4

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Joseph Barclay Pentland (?)
Date:
11 Sep 1868
Source of text:
MSA 1 / 212, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10209

From:
Rider Garrett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 September [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.95
Summary:

Is very grateful for his comments on her translation of Dante's Inferno. Will obtain Mr. Ford's version. Intends to continue with her translation though she sees no prospect of it being printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11918

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.280
Summary:

Comments on double star observations and some papers on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11919

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.281
Summary:

About the location of several different sets of double star observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11941

From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.303
Summary:

While in Switzerland requested his wife to send to JH a little tract on Count de S. Robert's hypsometrical investigations. Found that Robert's formulae worked correctly for ordinary European heights. Realizes that JH demolished Robert's theories, but Robert also showed observations on P. S. Laplace's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[19 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.227
Summary:

Thanks RM for the double star observations he has sent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12139

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[29 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.229
Summary:

Sends RM a copy of Angelo Secchi's double star observations pointing to a very large number of calculation errors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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