From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 93
Summary:
Effect on seed production of differences in distance between Lythrum plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dalmahay
To:
Mr. Stewart
Date:
[21 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.464
Summary:
Believes he has solved the mystery of rain gauges holding more water when at the top of a building than when lower down. Would like JH's address so that he can communicate with him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
22 October 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific Letters 1859-65, letter no. 158
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.7.8; Reel 10
Summary:
Received JH's list of nebulae. Will observe and confirm as many as possible. Honored by Alexander Herschel's offer to be WL's assistant. Defines WL's expectations of assistant.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 9)
Summary:
Sends observations on Lythrum. Reports bad health of Maud Atherley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
23 October 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, ff. 80-83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Would like JL to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
24 October 1862
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[24 October 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0383.2; Reel 1087
Summary:
Apologizes for returning WL's letter unopened. JH receives many letters with postage due from strangers and does not accept them. Did not recognize WL's address in Malta. Gives summary of JH's 3 Oct. 1862 letter to WL that seems to have been lost.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. Paterson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.243
Summary:
Is giving a lecture on the atmosphere, and wonders if JH has written anywhere on the meteorology of the year 1860.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 106
Summary:
Asks WED to make some observations on differences in pods of Lythrum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 64–5
Summary:
Has sent Masdevallia and other plants.
J. J. F. W. v. Parrot’s Ararat [(1834), trans. W. D. Cooley, in The world surveyed in the XIXth century, vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Couch Adams
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct. 25th 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 32
Summary:
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
Date:
[25 October 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:
Discusses standards of weight and measure, especially the idea of a proposed unit called the 'Medical Grain.' JH strongly opposes this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Sharpey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.19; Reel 10
Summary:
R.S.L. Council voted additional £20 for reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae. Inform Walter White where money should be sent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 October 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Adalbert Adolf Mühry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.377
Summary:
Brings JH news of AM's recent activity, including another book on climatology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 121
Summary:
Sends Nesaea seeds for CD
and stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 167
Summary:
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
