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Herschel6720

From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.37
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's letter and pamphlet. Worked on portraiture before Mr. Baird and assisted him later. Outlines the various lenses he used and made for other people. Is pleased JH has a good opinion of the work of [W. B.?] Rogers. Is he familiar with the works of [Thomas?] Dicks in astronomy?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3445

From:
Maurice Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 2v
Summary:

Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1257

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 or 20 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2228
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-62-02-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Clement Hodgkinson
Date:
13 February 1862
Source of text:
Unit 553, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3444

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 28
Summary:

Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel723

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.117
Summary:

Comments on a number of chemical phenomena, and asks AH to analyze several solid samples; further, JH discusses meteor falls, with emphasis on the application of Newton's laws and terminal velocities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3446

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Alberts
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 2r
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of a diploma for Doctor’s degree from the University of Breslau and expresses his thanks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 95
Summary:

Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.

Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.

Has sent Orchids MS to printers

and will work a little at dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7r
Summary:

Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3429

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7v
Summary:

Sends C. W. Crocker’s address.

Doubts CWC can help with Mormodes.

Will see CD at Lubbock’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4134

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (63)
Summary:

Floral structure of Melastoma. Asks AG to observe position of pistils in lately-opened flowers of different plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1721

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
16 February 1862
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3449

From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 254
Summary:

Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Separation of sexes in Billbergia.

Offers to experiment under CD’s direction, now that he has retired from Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-02-17

From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 February 1862
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, DF/3/1/folder 42, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936.For other copies of this letter, see bundle 10, no. 12, unit 11, VPRS 1095, Public Record Office, Victoria, and Museum of Victoria, the latter having been made by Ernst Heyne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4136

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 February 1862
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG/4/1/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4135

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
17 February 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3450

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176: 8
Summary:

In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3451

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 106
Summary:

Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1863

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
18th Feb 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1135; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1980, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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