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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[September 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 62
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Johannes von Gumpach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.72
Summary:
Has published a pamphlet on the True Figure and Dimensions of the Figure of the Earth, which he sends for his comments. Has had no success with G. B. Airy. Has found an error in J. F. Encke's work on the comet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[2–3 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 103
Summary:
Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24)
Summary:
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.8; Reel 10
Summary:
Sorry to hear about JH's pain. Encloses notes from GA's testimony to parliamentary committee investigating changing standards of weights and measures. GA's work continues on 'veritable precessions.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Murray
Date:
2nd Sept. 1862
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, Ms. 41214, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Hive-bees and clover.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018)
Summary:
Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.
Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
[3–]4 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68)
Summary:
Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.332
Summary:
Is grateful for the ? which made him laugh. Hopes that Lady Herschel will accept the enclosed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[3 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 55
Summary:
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johannes von Gumpach
Date:
[3 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.73 & 23.386
Summary:
Thanks for the pamphlet on the Figure of the Earth, but regrets he cannot agree with its conclusions. Points out some of the more serious errors.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
B. Bell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 September 1862
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 17
Summary:
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 111: 81, DAR 165: 117
Summary:
Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
5 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980)
Summary:
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.1: 149
Summary:
Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;
criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Sarah Faraday and Faraday
To:
Mary Deacon and William Deacon
Date:
7 and 10 September 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/2/5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
C. K. Akin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
September 8th. /62
Source of text:
SC MS Add.7656/A615, CUL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project