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DCP-LETT-4217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 June [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 709–10)
Summary:

GB’s address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] pleased him as much as Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] disappointed him on species question. GB has done a "real good turn to the right side".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2017

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
26 (1863), pp. 44-54, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4216

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 151
Summary:

Has heard from Julius von Haast that some of his letters were lost before leaving New Zealand. Haast’s enclosure for CD has been forwarded.

Haast and James Hector have both sent accounts of their travels in New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4233

From:
John Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.330
Summary:

Suggests JH send copies of JH's letters from the Athenaeum to members of Parliament because JH has more influence than JT.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4336

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
19 June 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4114

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
20 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B53–4
Summary:

Glad to hear of JS’s orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].

Suggests experiments on peloria.

Wants to count seed of the self-fertile red cowslip with equal stamens and styles.

Can send account of Hottonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4217A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
20 June [1863]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Recalls the long walks in Cambridge with the "expectant senior wrangler". Cannot accept invitation (related to meetings of the BAAS) because of continuing bad health, his own and that of his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4217F

From:
William Allport Leighton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 180
Summary:

His observations of varieties of Verbascum.

Reference to Abbé Correa in the Life of Sir J. E. Smith.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2018

From:
Edwin Wyndham-Quin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 22nd
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/192, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-63-06-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 104-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4219

From:
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes (Jacques Boucher de Perthes)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 257
Summary:

Sends his tranformist book [De la création: essai sur l’origine et la progression des êtres, 5 vols. (1838–41)]; his admiration for CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4337

From:
Duke of Sutherland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 June 1863
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 196
Summary:

Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10827

From:
John B. N. Hennessey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.179
Summary:

Letter did not reach him as he had left town for Clifton. Hopes to reach town in time to see JH's son [John] before he leaves. Unable to meet him at Greenwich as he had to return with [Andrew S.] Waugh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Loring Brace
Date:
24 June [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.310)
Summary:

Discussion of, and thanks for, CLB’s new work, Races of the Old World [1863]. Special interest in p. 388 on colour and constitution; CD mentions questions sent previous year to surgeons serving in tropical countries regarding diseases and colour of hair and skin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-06-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 June 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 107-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-63-06-24a

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 June 1863
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 197
Summary:

CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7704

From:
Thomas Humphrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.9.4 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

Announces quarterly meeting of National School Committee on 27 June.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-63-06-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Lange
Date:
26 June 1863
Source of text:
Lange Papers, Botanisk Centralbibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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