From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18–19 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 111, 116
Summary:
Notes and observations on orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Titus Armellini
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.406
Summary:
Further information on his invention of the floating barometer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 August [1862]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 28-29
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 146-147]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.6; Reel 10
Summary:
Edward Sabine sent JH's letter to GS with instructions to forward it to William Sharpey. Sees no difficulty in proceeding.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 52–3
Summary:
Observations on Welwitschia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
1862 | 20th. Aug.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/920; MS JT/1/HTYP/520, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1862
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 , 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:
Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.
A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28)
Summary:
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward A. S. Seymour
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.197
Summary:
Unable to appoint a Mr. Maclea [Harry Maclear], on whose behalf JH had applied, to Cadetship in the Royal Marines, in justice to many older candidates.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (67)
Summary:
Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.
Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.
Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.
Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. J. Ewer & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.139
Summary:
Regarding a purported relation of Caroline Herschel and her right to any property.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 4 (EH 88205929)
Summary:
Leonard Darwin’s illness.
William Darwin and the bank.
Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
21 August 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009)
Summary:
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
August Petermann
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 August 1862
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Perthes Verlag Gotha, Germany
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 August 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/126
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 August 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281)
Summary:
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project