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FVM-62-05-01b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
1 May 1862
Source of text:
V62/2880, unit 749, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1890

From:
Hermann Helmholtz
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5.1.61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/40, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 153
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at stigma of Leschenaultia biloba; it seems certain there is no stigma within the bud. Case would be important.

Singular case of peculiar structure now remodified into the functional condition of a Campanula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 May [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.

Horace Darwin strangely ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13551

From:
William Wesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1862-5
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0246.2; Reel 15
Summary:

[Written on back of printed notice from Smithsonian Institution, asking British correspondents to forward literary and scientific materials via WW in London.] Received JH's note and vol. 7 of Smithsonian Collections. Sent JH's parcel to Washington.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-62-05-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
2 May 1862
Source of text:
W62/3099, unit 749, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 May [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 118–119)
Summary:

Has returned last page of index [of Orchids]. Hopes JM will reconsider price – 10s seems high. Suggests two reviewers likely to be favourable. Sends list for presentation copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7141

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[2 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.372
Summary:

JH's inability to concentrate; comments in reply to AD's 1862-4-19 and 1862-4-29.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9529

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[2 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.371
Summary:

On the dynamics of atmospheric pressure and the pressure on clouds and birds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7142

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.352
Summary:

Many years ago JH had said his time was nearly up; now he is doing it again. Hopes it is a good omen. Regarding Greek hexameters and English translations of heroic poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7685

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.5.3; Reel 10
Summary:

Will send records of cometic nebulae EC found in Nice during winter of 1844-1845. These did not appear in JH's catalogue. Does JH have all nebulae found by William Parsons?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1719

From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.206
Summary:

Note of thanks to accompany payment for JH's first installment of the Iliad translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
4 May [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and "valuable" extracts.

If S. American Carabi differ more from other species than do those from other distant locations (e.g., Siberia, Europe, etc.), CD agrees that difference would be too great to have occurred in the recent glacial age; CD also rejects independent origin. Plants seem to migrate more readily than animals. HWB should not underrate length of glacial period; CD also believes they will be driven to an older glacial period.

Sorry about news of British Museum – hopeless to contend against anyone supported by Owen.

CD dearly wishes HWB could find a situation in which he could give time to science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11625

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[4 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.373
Summary:

As JH is preparing a catalogue of all known nebulae, would WL please provide a complete listing of all he has seen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3533

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Thomas Sellwood Stephens
Date:
[before 5 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 2
Summary:

JBI asks Stephens to ask CD to send particulars of Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3537

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 33, 134a
Summary:

Household problems – stolen silver, maids. His house for some months has had reputation for being not a little disreputable.

On Cameroon plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3534

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 9
Summary:

About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.

Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1891

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
5th. May 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/480, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4176

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
5 May 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4177

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
5 May 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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