From:
Henry Barnett
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 19th | Saturday night.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/79, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 114
Summary:
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James P. Joule
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/138; MS JT/1/TYP/2/662, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 22 July 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 323
Summary:
Confesses to having made a gross blunder with reference to the size of bee cells in West Indian combs [see 3658a].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 July 1862
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4114-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22nd July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4114; 6:4202, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[22 July 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0021; Reel 1054
Summary:
After collecting and reducing all nebula observations by JH and William Herschel, JH objects to GA's suggestion that JH should pay for calculations needed to prepare catalogue of nebulae. Hesitates to request additional funds from R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
22 July 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.38-40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23[–4] July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (76)
Summary:
AG’s orchid observations are admirable.
Owen has lectured on birds’ descending from one form.
French criticism of CD’s Primula paper.
Only AG has seen that Orchids was "a ""flank movement"" on the enemy".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.452
Summary:
Thanks JH for translation of Iliad. AS's health has been poor. Invites the Herschels to Norwich.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.An unsigned copy of this letter, differing slightly in accenting and punctuation, is in the personal dossier on M maintained by the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, now at Archives Nationales, Paris, MS AJ/15/549. The copy is annotated 'avec une lettre de Mr. le Profr. d'Erpetologie' [with a letter from the Professor of Herpetology]; no such letter from Auguste Duméril has been found
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 101
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 62-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 154
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens MelbournePublished in part in Moyal (1976) pp. 180-1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9
Summary:
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
24th. July
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, f. 101; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2093, BL; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
24th,. July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/520, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.
His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017)
Summary:
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project