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DCP-LETT-3495

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 32
Summary:

Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.

How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8706

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[7 April 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Thanks for HT's St. Clement's Eve. Has been reading it with much interest. Praises it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3496

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1
Summary:

Cannot accept invitation at present.

Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1725

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
7 April 1862
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1847

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 April 1862
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B1
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 23
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 143]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1719

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0422

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 April 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-62-04-08a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
8 April 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 147
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel3627

From:
George Julius P. Scrope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.183
Summary:

Thanks for volume on physical geography and for encouragement at start of GS's career. Hopes JH will approve of GS's latest work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3498

From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 23
Summary:

Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel430

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.15
Summary:

Acknowledgment of receipt of more material from JH [see GA's 1862-4-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 148
Summary:

On Vanilla.

Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes

and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".

The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10504

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.381
Summary:

Was interested to receive the information regarding another missing nebula; would like to mention it at the R.A.S. The late George Bishop's observatory is now being rebuilt at Twickenham. Will return N. R. Pogson's table of Julian dates tomorrow. Has adopted the first of JH's suggestions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE533

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr 1862
Source of text:
146, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-3501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 116–117)
Summary:

JM is a bold man to print 1500 copies [of Orchids].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10505

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.382
Summary:

Returns N. R. Pogson's tables. Has received a communication from [W.?] Lummis concerning a dark spot on the sun's disc. Has been unable to make any calculations yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3503

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Did CD lend AM a pamphlet on cave insects by S. Scudder ["On the genus Raphidophora", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8 (1861–2): 6–14]? CD much wants it and remembers lending it to someone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3502

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 13
Summary:

Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.

Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].

Observations on Campanula dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9212

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 April 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207103 (C: RS:HS 23.366)
Summary:

Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Is preparing a 'General Index Catalogue of Nebulae,' with help from computists supplied by G. B. Airy. Asks WW to recommend JH's son Alexander for a professorship at the Andersonian University of Glasgow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-62-04-11

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 April 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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