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Herschel11626

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
E[dward] Loyd
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.382
Summary:

Writes to ask EL a series of questions about probabilities related to shooting at targets, with variations in the size and shape of the targets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7669

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.15; Reel 10
Summary:

Assistant Samuel Hunter will send WP's observations to JH. Original intent was to confirm JH's nebulae, but WP soon found new nebulae. Trouble finding good assistants. Note on new transit instrument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7146

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.356
Summary:

Should not imagine that he is declining when a hot day comes along. Regarding Thomas Harriot and his theological views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5736

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.225
Summary:

Sends articles he has written for the English Encyclopaedia. Still awaiting results of the professorship at Addiscombe.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-62-07-26b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
26 July 1862
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 July 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 153
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel8392

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26 July [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.277
Summary:

Thanks JH for mentioning HH's paper. Attributes electrical phenomena to 'a material element,' perhaps a modified form of ether, distinct from other matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 159
Summary:

Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.

JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.

George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0427

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[28 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-3667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (75)
Summary:

AG’s "capital" review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–44].

Thinks there are three forms of Lythrum salicaria.

Discusses transport of seeds by sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3668

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 16
Summary:

Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3669

From:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 244
Summary:

Invites CD and Emma to dine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-07-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-29b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 204, no. 528, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3670

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 115
Summary:

Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.

Has received six copies of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1919

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
1st. Aug. 1862
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, ff. 208-9, BL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1918

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29th July 1862
Source of text:
HP 8:43, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4203

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG/4/1/58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
29 [July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 55 (EH 88206038)
Summary:

Cares more for dimorphism now than for orchids. Today saw the three forms of Lythrum, which means there should be 18 different practicable crosses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6265

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.26
Summary:

If he intends attending the B.A.A.S. meeting in October he hopes that he will stay at St. John's Lodge. Lady and Miss Herschel are welcome.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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