From:
A. R. Drummond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.506
Summary:
Has received a letter from the Misses Gretton and in consequence has opened an account on their behalf.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 March 1862
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 150
Summary:
Darwin mentions that ARW will soon return from the Malay Archipelago.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 150
Summary:
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Mar 1862
Source of text:
144, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
14 March 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/111.51
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 28
Summary:
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Richardson
Date:
[14 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.487b
Summary:
States that the current patent laws are unjust and would prefer to see them repealed rather than maintained.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project