From:
John Tyndall
To:
Miss Moore
Date:
9th Jan. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1074, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.157
Summary:
Invites JH to meeting of Balloon Committee and updates everything in previous letter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday mng
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/972, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11v
Summary:
Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11r
Summary:
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65
Summary:
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Susanna Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 11.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/285, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
the Verein für Erdkunde und Verwandte Wissenshaften zu Darmstadt
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 January 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M197, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.468
Summary:
Discusses a depression on a heliograph, which he cannot reconcile with [Frederick] Howlett's observations. Conjectures over-exposure in printing may be the culprit.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
13 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 198
Summary:
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 327
Summary:
Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 290
Summary:
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.377
Summary:
Regarding the apparent disappearance of a nebula. Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Hutton Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 31
Summary:
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.
Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George F. Chambers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.330
Summary:
Will be pleased to furnish details of instruments used in a future edition. What does JH think of his attempts to copy his originals?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 [Jan 1862]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167)
Summary:
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 239
Summary:
Has read CD’s Primula paper.
Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
15 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.69-70
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
15 and 16 Jan 1862
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1)
Summary:
Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project