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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Park
Date:
12 May 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276)
Summary:
Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Greenwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.34
Summary:
Was pleased to receive JH's version of Book I of the Iliad. Comments on the difficulties of translating ancient works into modern language. Hopes his health is sounder.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[13 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.149b
Summary:
Times of 12 May called for remedy to industrial pollution. In 1838 JH visited soda production plant near Newcastle and suggested profitable modification to fume chimneys that removed harmful vapors and generated useful compounds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[14 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
14 May 1862
Source of text:
W62/3740, unit 468, VPRS 3991/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
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 15
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
14 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277)
Summary:
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Seventh Duke of Devonshire
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 May 1862
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[14 May 1862]
Source of text:
London Times (May 15, 1862), p. 11, col. 4
Summary:
Calls public attention to an inexpensive process JH devised in 1838 to eliminate noxious acid fumes coming from manufacturers of soda.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Obadiah Westwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181: 90
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Has captured a bee with pollinia adhering to its head. Will send it to CD if he likes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 152
Summary:
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 151
Summary:
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
15th May 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1139, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 30
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 15 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 66
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 48
Summary:
Thanks for the book [Orchids].
Found thousands of Ophrys aranifera plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
P. O'Callaghan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.159
Summary:
Sends drawings of masses of ice that fell in the neighborhood on the 7th. Would like drawings returned to deposit them in the museum. Hopes grandchildren reached Collingwood safely.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110: B79–80, DAR 171: 3
Summary:
Sends CD a quotation from Plato which anticipates the Origin.
Has been enjoying CD’s paper on dimorphism in the Journal of the Linnean Society ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. He has found similar structures [see Forms of flowers, pp. 116, 122].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 27 (EH 88206079))
Summary:
Has dissected Leschenaultia biloba flowers. Finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium. Describes what is the apparent stigma but has found no pollen-tubes to confirm it as the real one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project