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DCP-LETT-3404

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74)
Summary:

Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".

U. S. politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 252)
Summary:

Much amused at the Witness.

Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.

Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.

Has 16 ill in the house!

Natural History Review a capital number.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3406

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 55
Summary:

Sends proof-sheets of CD’s contribution to LJ’s Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10501

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.378
Summary:

Cannot see how there can be two opinions regarding JH's catalogue of nebulae. Suitable work for the R.A.S. to publish. Further regarding the lost nebula in Taurus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1859

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
Date:
22nd . Jan. 1862
Source of text:
DF 15/2, Natural History Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4124

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
22 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.75-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4125

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
22 January 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks for orchids and other flowers.

Will send photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3407

From:
John Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176.1: 194
Summary:

Reports that the orchids Myanthus and Catasetum are identical.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9211

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 January 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207102 (C: RS:HS 23.359)
Summary:

Thanks for volume three of WW's Plato edition. Responds to WW's comments on JH's translation of the first section of Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1860

From:
Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 23d 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/51, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3409

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:

Has had 16 in the household ill.

Wants to meet JL.

Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4126

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
23 January 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel352

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 January 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.392.381
Summary:

Has sent an R.S.L. membership application certificate for GA to sign and send on.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel424

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 January 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.2
Summary:

Is preparing a list of nebulae and their positions; does GA think anyone would print them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-62-01-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 49-52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-01-24c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-01-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
René Lenormand
Date:
24 January 1862
Source of text:
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Phanerogamie, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-01-24d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel7649

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.3; Reel 10 (ACCS: RGO 6.200.3)
Summary:

[Responding to JH's 1862-1-23], states that R.A.S. finances not sufficient to publish JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae,' but R.S.L. is 'rolling in wealth.' Work could be done at [Greenwich Observatory], where GA is already printing 'Skeleton Forms for Precessions.' Forwarded R.S.L. certificate for [E. J.] Lowe to W. H. Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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