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FVM-62-10-00

From:
Anatolii Bogdanov
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
October 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.An English translation of this letter was read at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria on 21 April 1863 and published in the Argus, 23 April 1863, p. 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 25
Summary:

Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].

Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-10-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Toon
Date:
1 October 1862
Source of text:
Minute book 1862-8, Horticultural Society of Victoria, Hawthorn Municipal Library, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel5690

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1862-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.179
Summary:

Forwarding account of the great comet of 1858. Regarding illustrations for astronomical monographs. Includes several publications of Harvard Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282)
Summary:

Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].

Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].

Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3748

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

Thanks for information. Asks for more information about labellum of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8348

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Smith
Date:
[1 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.150 (C: RS:HS 23.388)
Summary:

Sends JH's translation of Book II of Homer's Iliad (1862). Hopes to publish it in Cornhill Magazine. Three reasons for wanting it to appear soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4224

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Phillips
Date:
2 October 1862
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4225

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 October 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/129
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3749

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 276
Summary:

Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3750

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 164: 7
Summary:

Inquires whether previous letter was received by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13498

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Lassell]
Date:
[3 October 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0732; Reel 1089
Summary:

Thanks for superb new information about nebulae in William Herschel's list. Wishes Alexander Herschel could serve as [WL]'s assistant in Valetta. Success of JH's son Alexander in chemistry and meteor research.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3751

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 164: 8
Summary:

Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3751F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1345, 2003)
Summary:

Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3752

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 and 13 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 120
Summary:

Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000543

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
4 October 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday4226

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
4 October 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/129
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3789F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 6)
Summary:

Has found Lythrum, and sends some. Wants to know what CD thinks of frog discussion between Sandars and James. Asks CD to send objects for microscope demonstration. Means to go see the London Exhibition again. Has finished reading Orley Farm and returns it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3753

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 164
Summary:

Thanks for opinion on Drosera. After working for a time on a subject he is absolutely incapable of judging its value.

Has found a case in Lythrum of a necessary triple alliance between three hermaphrodites; the strangest case of propagation recorded among plants or animals.

Asks for L. thymifolia to see how a trimorphic form passes or graduates into dimorphic.

Questions JDH on Linum perenne.

Has found 33 hybrids in one field between Verbascum thapsus and V. lychnitis. The perfect series of varieties would have justified running the species together, but every one of the intermediate forms is sterile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000544

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
6 October 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/68, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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