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
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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
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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States that the current patent laws are unjust and would prefer to see them repealed rather than maintained.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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64)
Summary:
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
15th March 1862
Source of text:
RR/4/266, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
15th March 1862
Source of text:
RR/4/277, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
[15 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.365
Summary:
About the solution of algebraic equations and JH's previous work on this topic.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
16 March 1862
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no. 523, folder 204, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Charles Thomas Constantine Grant
To:
Robert Mordaunt Hay
Date:
16 March 1862
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S. 90.10.126
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Anthoni Johnson ("Charlie/Charley") Brooke
To:
John Brooke Johnson Brooke (formerly Johnson)
Date:
17 March 1862
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S.90.8.53
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.491
Summary:
Recalls JH having written that an 'annulus of stars might be in equilibrium.' Asks where this claim appears in JH's writings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 23–6
Summary:
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 67
Summary:
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Sherratt
Date:
17 March 1862
Source of text:
Anon (1868), 326
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Thomas Sherratt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 March 1862
Source of text:
Anon (1868), 326
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
18 March 1862
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no. 524, folder 204, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project