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DCP-LETT-3771

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 71
Summary:

Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.

Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].

Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3757F

From:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Oct 1862
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2859–60)
Summary:

TFJ returns CD’s "too flattering" letter concerning Glen Roy [see 3761]. Further discussion of [A. C.] Ramsay’s, [J. D.] Hooker’s, and CL’s arguments about the formation of glacial lakes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10188

From:
Johannes von Gumpach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.75
Summary:

Has had no further communication from JH and would be pleased to receive any further comments if JH has now read the pamphlet more thoroughly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000545

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
17 October 1862
Source of text:
MM/10/69, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-3770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
17 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Rolle has done great service by publishing his book [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12720

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
Date:
[17 October 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0135; Reel 1054
Summary:

Nebulous nature of some stars. Recent reports on variability of some nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14124

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
Date:
[17 October 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0347.2 & TxU:H/M-0350.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Reduction of JH's catalog of nebulae will not be completed before Christmas. HA's success in discovering nebulae and novae. Has compared positions of all nebulae observed by both JH and William Herschel; very few show evidence of shift. Thanks for offering HA's observations, but space in catalog is too limited.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12608

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
T. P. Anderson
Date:
[17 October 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0032; Reel 1054
Summary:

Not aware of any changes in trust fund status of T. H. Hollier since 1861. Returns letter to bank accountant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White; Royal Society of London
Date:
17 [Oct or Nov] 1862
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

CD needs first volume of the second series [of Trans. R. Hortic. Soc. Lond.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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