From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr – May? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10
Summary:
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 377, DAR 174.1: 22
Summary:
E. A. Parkes informs him there will be difficulty about the Army returns [on CD’s Query to Army surgeons, see Freeman, Works of Charles Darwin, p. 111] owing to official obstructions by Director General. [Enclosed letter from Parkes to GB says that the Director General does not think that Army surgeons could be asked to collect information systematically for CD, but perhaps some informal, voluntary arrangement could be made.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
April 1862
Source of text:
Schoenbein (1862a)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
April 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/128
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.275)
Summary:
Explains how melting of ice in Glen Spean could have successively freed two lower cols, thus establishing the water-levels that determined the two lower shelves in Glen Roy.
Plans to read a paper to the Linnean Society ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
1 April 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/50
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
2 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3)
Summary:
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Brooke Johnson Brooke (formerly Johnson)
To:
James Brooke
Date:
2 April 1862
Source of text:
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House: MSS. Pac. S.90.5.125
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.10
Summary:
Is sending first part of observational data for nebula catalogue [see GA's 1862-3-31].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.13
Summary:
Forgot, in earlier note [see JH's 1862-4-2], to indicate agreement with GA's suggestions [see GA's 1862-3-31].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.14
Summary:
Material sent by JH [see JH's 1862-4-2] arrived safely.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 April 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/128
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.16; Reel 10
Summary:
Please send receipt for £20.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[4 April 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0193; Reel 1054
Summary:
Reports the disappearance of a nebula seen by William Herschel in Coma Berenices, but which H. L. d'Arrest did not locate in 1850.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4? April 1862
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/11, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
L. Ewald
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 April 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M106, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Newman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 172.2: 38
Summary:
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[7? April 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 51
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters