From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 172
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 140
Summary:
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 58–9
Summary:
Thanks CD for his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Asks if CD has observed the true oxlip (Primula elatior).
Comments on Hottonia and Stellaria graminea. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 72, 313.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louisa Drewry
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
17 Jan 1862
Source of text:
MSD 4 / 133, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
17 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.71-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.332
Summary:
Requesting JH to propose EL as a candidate for the R.S.L. The B.A.A.S. meeting will be in Nottingham in 1863. Has been to Spain to observe the eclipse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
18 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.73-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Ker Reid
Date:
18 January 1862
Source of text:
Rosalind Brennand
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.158
Summary:
Asks for JH's opinion on balloon ascents, to be presented at next Balloon Committee meeting. Explains enclosed letters and diagrams regarding ascents; mentions that new thermometer suggested by JH is under construction.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 8–11
Summary:
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
20 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 22)
Summary:
Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.
Asks for plants he wants for experiments.
Preparing a little book on Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 291
Summary:
The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.
Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.
Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Conrad Martens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 52
Summary:
He will send CD one of his sketches to add to the two CD has kept since Beagle days.
Asks for FitzRoy’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 20
Source of text:
DF 15/2, Natural History Museum
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
[22 Dec. 1861 & 20 Jan. 1862]
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/53
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 199-201]
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 87-88]
Summary:
Plans to return to England; GS's preoccupation with politics; ARW's paper on New Guinea Native Trade, Blondin, Mr Fechter; Great Expectations; wet season in Sumatra; jungle animals; monkey behaviour; Malay language and customs; [Mony's] book on Java; Dutch and British colonial government; GS's siblings; Marriage, desirable qualities in a wife.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 173
Summary:
Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Jan 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 236
Summary:
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 27
Summary:
Will enclose list of orchids in bloom for CD’s use.
Asks for photograph; her pleasure in knowing CD.
Most interested in the account of pigeons in CD’s book [Origin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 26
Summary:
Thanks for promise of photograph.
Has no melastomads in bloom.
Describes sensitive anthers of Cynorchis.
Thanks CD for "your little pamphlet".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
22 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller 1871-81, un-numbered letter after f. 48
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project