Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Barnard
Date:
7 June 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/36
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Ann Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
8 June [1861?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.222
Summary:
Regrets missing JH's visit. W. H. Smyth having trouble walking.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927)
Summary:
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.82
Summary:
Observes and measures sunspots. Takes spectrum of solar photosphere; detects sodium and magnesium absorption lines. Pleased with Alexander Herschel's work on the solar spectrum; wishes he would begin work on stellar spectra.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.368
Summary:
Has received several letters from German astronomers on U. J. J. Leverrier's suggestions for the re-naming of the asteroids. Comments on this. Is preparing a report for the R.A.S. and would like to hear JH's views on the subject.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Marc Seguin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.184
Summary:
Important office in French Institute has been passed on to MS. Compliments JH and many other members of R.S.L., and suggests exchange of ideas, asking JH for delivery of latest edition of JH's astronomy text, discusses idea of heat as motion, and other concepts. Expresses high scientific aspirations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
T. P. Anderson
Date:
[10 June 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0031; Reel 1054
Summary:
Not aware of any changes in trust fund status of T. H. Hollier since Jan. 1860.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6)
Summary:
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andres Poey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.172
Summary:
Sends some memoirs to JH. Is keeping the most recent ones. Has always cited JH in his works. Requests JH's critique of AP's work on photo-electric images. Leaves London in an hour and regrets not having met JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
12 June 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 171–2
Summary:
Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Walford
Date:
13 June [1861]
Source of text:
Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)
Summary:
Sends "the dates of the principal events of my Life" requested by EW [for use in his Men of the time (1862)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
14 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 235
Summary:
Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Emerson Tennent
Date:
14 June 1861
Source of text:
Y. Watanabe
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 June [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Sends MS on fowls for WBT’s inspection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 15 June 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 15 June 1861, p. 552
Summary:
Reports his experiment with fertilising the large periwinkle (Vinca major), which he had never known to produce seed. He found that the pollen could not reach the stigma without the aid of insects, which in England never visit the flower. CD produced seeds by inserting a fine bristle, like the proboscis of a moth. Asks readers to repeat this experiment with other species that do not habitually seed and to report the result.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Field
Date:
[before 15 June 1861]
Source of text:
The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 521
Summary:
His thanks to "Eques" of Argyllshire for his remarkable information on the inheritance of colour in horses. Acknowledges the difficulty of defining dun. Requests further information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bingham Sibthorpe Malden
Date:
15–16 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.254)
Summary:
Thanks BSM for orchid specimens. Discusses various species of Orchis and Ophrys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexis Caswell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.327
Summary:
Will be leaving for America shortly so regrets he will be unable to visit him. Has happy memories of his interview at Greenwich.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 300
Summary:
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
