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From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
December 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/118
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Leighton
Date:
1 December 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 December 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/133
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norman Macleod
Date:
[1 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.264 & 23.398
Summary:
Regrets delay in answering letter but has been away from Collingwood and letter was not forwarded. Is unwilling to write article for another journal as he is already producing articles for an editor. Would editor of Good Words be interested in printing three lectures he gave at Hawkhurst on volcanoes, comets, and the sun? Could work this up for an article.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283)
Summary:
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 696
Summary:
Asks for authentic information on following questions: 1. Has the weight of the gooseberry variety London subsequently exceeded the 1845 record of 880 grains?
2. Is any record kept of the diameter of the largest pansies?
3. How early does any variety of Dahlia flower and do some varieties withstand frost better than others?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 296
Summary:
Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 327
Summary:
Sends CD a Chinese breed of guinea-pig. Has heard it claimed that the domestic guinea-pig will not interbreed with the wild rock cavy and that, therefore, artificial selection has formed a new species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
3 December 1862
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 204, no. 531, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171: 91
Summary:
Apologises for not writing last summer. Scientific progress is all but complete. Our civilisation will fall now that it has reached the peak of its development.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
3 December 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/133
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
3 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B60–3
Summary:
JS’s facts on Primula are new to CD.
In Linum CD has also found dimorphic and non-dimorphic species.
Plans to publish next autumn on successive homomorphic generations in Primula.
"Fluctuating forms" due to culture.
Urges JS to publish.
Lobelia functionally monoecious.
Where did JS publish on Clivia hybrids? Did he count parent and cross seeds, as Gärtner shows is necessary?
CD has done large experiments on artificially fertilised cowslips. They never resemble oxlips.
Would welcome detailed criticism of natural selection by a careful observer like JS. Most criticism worthless. Expects a great deal from Lyell’s reaction.
Suggests JS do orchid experiment to see if rostellum can be penetrated by pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
W[illiam] G[eorge] Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.225
Summary:
In light of recent discussions of metric system, which WS dislikes for 'lack of divisibility,' asks where to find JH's article on advantages of British measurement system.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1862
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Summary:
Illness has prevented his reading Origin. He has, however, expressed his [negative] opinion on the subject of mutability of species in his Manual of geology [1862]. Since his persuasions are so strong, he can do no less.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
4 December 1862
Source of text:
Grey papers, GL M50(3), Auckland Public Library, Auckland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
4 December 1862
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1857–64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Couch Adams
Date:
4th Dec. 1864
Source of text:
DD.AM 580, Cornwall Record Office, Trur0, Cornwall
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
4 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Unknown dealer
Summary:
Apologises for the trouble he has caused over his enquiries about strawberries. Describes the problems he and Emma have had with Verbascum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ernst Becker
Date:
4 December 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Mr. Schaeffer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.171
Summary:
Is sending from the Navy Board a new publication.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project