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From:
John Tyndall
To:
RT Lewis
Date:
c.1862
Source of text:
MM/9/20, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 181: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Watkiss Lloyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1862?]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.12 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

Brings coincidence to JH's attention. Believes WL's essay was 'worthy of a better fate.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Arthur Pepys Whately
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
pp. 389-90, Life and Work
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96)
Summary:

Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:

Quiz has been sent off to Down.

JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:

Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].

Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[3] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz arrived safely.

CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
3rd. Jan. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/T/1399, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Jany 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/229; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1381-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Matthew Collins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4] January [1862
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.264
Summary:

Sorry to hear that the almanac did not reach him. Would be glad for any of JH's comments. Has put previous address.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 64
Summary:

Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.

Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].

On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6 Jan. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1384, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 23
Summary:

Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ernst Becker
Date:
6 January 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.107
Summary:

Sending a copy of a book he has found of great benefit. News of his household. Mrs. Gordon (JH's daughter Caroline) must have been shocked at the death of the Prince Consort.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pole
Date:
7 January 1862
Source of text:
RCS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:

Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Francis Julius von Haast
Date:
8th January 1862
Source of text:
MS 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Fourth Duke of Northumberland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 January 1862
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project