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Herschel2020

From:
John Eustace Prescott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.52
Summary:

Thinks application of heat will not harm carbonate of lead crystal, and urges JH to 'boil, torture, or otherwise put it to the question in whatever way' JH sees fit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3552

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16? May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 25
Summary:

Thanks CD for his book [Orchids].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3557

From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 108: 133, DAR 161.2: 258
Summary:

Comments on presentation copy of Orchids. Has CD studied the orchid Sobralia?

Cannot get material for hollyhock experiment.

Sends his notes on Primula sinensis.

He is experimenting on Ranunculus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[17 May 1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 133)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for interesting letter about turkeys. Would be grateful for information on fertility of the hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3527

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079)
Summary:

Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.

Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1896

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15/5/62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2242-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3556

From:
Georgina Tollet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 128
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3559

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 109
Summary:

Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."

Details of U. S. orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3558

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 154
Summary:

Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.

Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.

Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.

Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1897

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Satuday night | 18th May 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1137, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
18 May [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks AGM to experiment on Epipactis palustris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3564

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 69
Summary:

Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.

Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.

HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.

Thanks for copy of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3561

From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 321
Summary:

Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.

Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.

Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3563

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 239
Summary:

Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4182

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/54
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-62-05-19

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3562

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 242
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4181

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3364

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 40
Summary:

Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1898

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
20th May
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/234, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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