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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:
Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 December [1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.310
Summary:
A metallic thermometer will be constructed at Kew Observatory to test JH's proposal. Experiments on Index of Friction of gases to be resumed at Kew.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 136, 129c
Summary:
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.180
Summary:
Would like JH's approval to submit the enclosed certificate on behalf of JH's son. No. 29 of the Record of Recreative Science contains a good article on Light by E. J. Lowe, who mentions JH's name.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10–12 December 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 93
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 10 Decemb 61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/26, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Dec 1861
Source of text:
143, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[husband of Lady Mildred?]
Date:
[10 December 1861]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.14 (C: DMC.695A.885.16)
Summary:
Due to poor health of both JH and his wife, Margaret, JH writes to decline an invitation to dinner.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lee
Date:
[10 December 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0223; Reel 1054
Summary:
Grateful for JL's support of JH's son [?] for R.A.S. membership, but JH advised [son] not to apply until [son] had made some significant contribution to astronomy worthy of membership. [JH annotation: How different from today, when election is so easy.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
10 December 1861
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/52
- Clodd, E. (Ed). (1892). In: The Naturalist on the River Amazon. London: John Murray. [pp. xxxiv-xxxv]
Summary:
Bates' paper on Papilios; Darwinian philosophy, geographical distribution of species, rivers as limits to distribution, ARW's Zoological Society paper on distribution of monkey species in Brazil; isolation of species from geographical origins, geological evidence; hopes Bates will write on Cicindelidae; collecting in Sumatra; plans to return to England.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alfred Howitt
Date:
11 December 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2078/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (62)
Summary:
Discusses the worsening relations between their two countries and the possibility of war.
Expects Orchids and his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] to be out soon.
Thanks AG for some facts on dimorphism.
George Bentham has given him a list of Oxalis and Mentha species that are dimorphic like Primula.
Is in a "thick mud" regarding design in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[11 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.355
Summary:
Pleased ES and [Balfour?] Stewart like plan for metallic thermometer. Suggests way to obviate effect of pendulous movement of the suspended weight.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henri Victor Regnault
Date:
[11 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.318 (C: RS:HS 23.356)
Summary:
Describes objections to proposed metallic thermometer. Describes another simpler design for a metallic thermometer. Will ask [William] Sykes to consider HR's design.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[12 December 1861]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207100 (C: RS:HS 23.357)
Summary:
Asks WW's opinion of JH's hexameter translation of the opening section of Homer's Iliad. Comments on the value of hexameter verse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Crane Wilkins
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 December 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/119
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
13 December 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E36
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 13/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/641, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Crane Wilkins
Date:
14 December 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/119
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project