From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 171
Summary:
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Archer
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
August 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, un-numbered letter after letter no. 6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 and 2 Aug 1861
Source of text:
DAR 263: 49 (EH 88206493)
Summary:
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259)
Summary:
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
August 1861
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 447-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 August 1861
Source of text:
MM/19/29, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[2 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 50 (EH 88206494)
Summary:
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[3 August 1861]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H699 (C: Univ.Coll.London MS.Add.227)
Summary:
Asks R.S.L. Council to request Colonial Office to provide official recommendation to authorities in Malta for William Lassell, going there to observe.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 August 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 245.M probably enclosed Woolls’s letter with the letter he wrote to William Hooker on 24 August 1861 (in this edition as 61-08-24a)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
University of Breslau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1861
Source of text:
DAR 230: 9
Summary:
CD awarded honorary doctorate of medicine and surgery by the University of Breslau. [See 3194a.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.46
Summary:
Responds to a letter from JH, which GS has forwarded to Edward Sabine.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698)
Summary:
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.257
Summary:
Certain the Colonial Secretary [Duke of Newcastle] would write to governor of Malta on behalf of [William] Lassell.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
9 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 48 (EH 88206492)
Summary:
JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 August 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/119
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 46 (EH 88206490)
Summary:
With some hesitation CD’s solicitor advises acceptance of partnership offered to William.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Parry Nisbet
Date:
10 August 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.384-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: : 108
Summary:
Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
12 August 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
12 August 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/119
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project