From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Dalmahay
Date:
[11 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.392
Summary:
Comments on some papers of JD relating to the theory of rain.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[11 November 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0221; Reel 1054
Summary:
Suggests Albert Marth of Durham observatory as possible assistant to WL. JH's notes and diagram of nebular ring.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 9
Summary:
Sends paper on affinities of Plagiaulax ["On Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 November 1862
Source of text:
RGO 6/476, f.53
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 75–6
Summary:
Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.
Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.
R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B7–10
Summary:
Discusses whether or not "male" Acropera bear fruit. JS’s interpretation of Acropera pollination is ingenious. Pollen-tubes of some cleistogamous flowers germinate in the anthers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Twisleton
Date:
[12 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.452b (C: RS:HS 23.393)
Summary:
Claims 'I really have no definitely formed opinion' concerning public school curricula. Approves of ET's plan for teaching mathematics and increased study of foreign language.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 326
Summary:
Sends CD a specimen of the domestic pigeon of China.
Discusses a race of ducks he believes are hybrids between the Muscovy and Chinese domestic duck.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 November 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 65
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 November 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 66
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward Twisleton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.85
Summary:
Wants JH to write to the Public School Commissioners to express his views on what direction education should take in the public schools, especially JH's views on the teaching of the physical sciences.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
13 November 1862
Source of text:
RGO 6/476, f.54-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.263
Summary:
Sends [William] Lassell's reply and JH's own letter regarding telescope at Melbourne for review. All will be forwarded to Lord Rosse. Also sends lithograph.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
14 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 27
Summary:
Comments on HF’s paper on Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds. Paper "dreadfully severe" on Owen.
"I am worse than ever in bearing any excitement."
Glad HF attacked Australian Mastodon. Never did believe in him.
Mentions Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
G. Mühry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.378
Summary:
Writes to ask JH to contribute to the living expenses of GM's brother, Adalbart Adolf Mühry.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Dalmahay
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.465
Summary:
Is grateful for his comments on his paper. Will adapt them to his own hypothesis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
14 November 1862
Source of text:
RBGK MS English Letters, A-K, 1862/5 # 289
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Samuel Wilberforce
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 November 1862
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 20 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 71–2, 79
Summary:
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 78
Summary:
Appreciates CD’s acknowledging his letter and his comments on Acropera. Will send CD the Acropera capsule which is now maturing.
Experimenting on vegetable parthenogenesis.
Structure of Acropera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project