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DCP-LETT-2887A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
Date:
1 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Magdalen College, Oxford (MC:F26/C1/119)
Summary:

His thanks for the pamphlet ["Remarks on the final causes of the sexuality of plants" (1860)] and the extremely kind and liberal manner in which Daubeny alludes to CD’s work.

Further discussion of sexual generation and CD’s suspicion that its most important function remains hidden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-08-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
1 August 1860
Source of text:
P60/6696, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday3823

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
August 1860
Source of text:
BL Burdett-Coutts papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-564

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 August 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 291
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-08-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Macadam
Date:
2 August 1860
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2077/5, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2397

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[2 August 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.302
Summary:

Occupied with matters besides magnetism lately. Interest in science of Prince Consort [Albert] is praiseworthy. Discusses several observatories and letter of [T. W.?] Blakiston.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP1681

From:
Samuel Stevens
To:
Cajetan von Felder
Date:
2 August 1860
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM 422986-1007
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Faraday3812

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Francis Cowper
Date:
3 August 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
3 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Thanks for Epipactis.

Has AGM looked at pollen masses of bee orchid? Discusses method of insect fertilisation. Asks for specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2888

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.74–75)
Summary:

Thanks JM for Quarterly Review [July 1860] in which he is "quizzed splendidly". The Bishop [Wilberforce] misrepresents him often, but clever men think they can write a review with very slight knowledge of the book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3815

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 August 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3814

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
4 August 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/04
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3813

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Francis Cowper
Date:
4 August 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
5 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on bee orchid.

Comments on Hooker’s ["On the functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].

Discusses rostellum and describes fertilisation of Epipactis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2891

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 31–2
Summary:

Announces great ally for CD: K. E. von Baer "worth all the Owens & Bishops that ever were pupped". Quotes Baer: "J’ai énoncé les mêmes idées que M. Darwin", but based only on zoological geography.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3816

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
Date:
6 August 1860
Source of text:
Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, Académie royale de Belgique Archives No 17986 / 989
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4424

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
6 August [1860]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Congratulates TM on receiving knighthood. Sends recommendations and makes inquiries concerning Harold Maclear's schooling.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1993

From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.26
Summary:

Thanks for note of 29 [July]. Expresses doubt over accuracy of his observations of a solar eclipse. Stresses the necessity of careful comparison of various observations. Asks JH's opinion of a photograph with prominences greater and corona less than supposed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1725

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Augst 6th /60
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/245, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 72
Summary:

Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.

Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".

Anatomy of orchids.

Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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