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Herschel11423

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.334
Summary:

Hears that his chance of success at the R.S.L. is good. [John?] Lee will forward the certificate to JH for presentation to the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1861

From:
Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/146, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7688

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.6.3; Reel 10
Summary:

Glad that JH approves introducing Julian dates. Notes their use in American lunar tables. Positions of three new nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3378

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 [Feb] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 25
Summary:

Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1720

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
7 February 1862
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3434

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 12
Summary:

Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3441

From:
Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 157–8
Summary:

Describes battles among bulls for leadership of the [Chillingham] herd.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 143
Summary:

Thanks JDH for box of melastomes

and a very valuable reference from Daniel Oliver.

Is crossing Monochaetum which he thinks is dimorphic.

Is "sometimes half tempted to give up species & stick to experiments".

Pollen of Bletia hyacinthina is quite unlike other Bletia species but exactly the same as Epipactis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 [Feb 1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 114–115)
Summary:

Sends MS of Orchids except last chapter. It contains many new and curious facts and conclusions, but he has no idea whether it will sell. If it does not, will hold himself largely responsible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6719

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Davidson
Date:
[9 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.36 (C: RS:HS 23.361)
Summary:

Outlines the differences between the telescope of his own father and that of Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons]. Comments on various lenses. Sends him a little work of his own on telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3442A

From:
Maurice Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 230: 9a
Summary:

Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4131

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 February 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/125
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2475

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11 February [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.329
Summary:

JH will be pleased with Mr. de Souza's and [Charles] Smallwood's letters. American and Havana instruments were dispatched. [Hermann] Schlagintweit has made interesting magnetic survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1862

From:
Joseph Plateau
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Fevrier 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/91, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4132

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
11 February 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/47
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3443

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
11 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 2)
Summary:

Chillingham cattle leg bones will be sent to LR.

J. E. Gray has read a paper on unusual Japanese domesticated pig at the Zoological Garden ["On the skull of the Japanese pig", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1862): 13–17].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel850

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
11 February [1862]
Source of text:
JHS 4.2
Summary:

Mostly family news, concluding with concerns about family finances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3443F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1)
Summary:

Discusses his new microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
12 February 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 144
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4133

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 February 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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