From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.141, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[1863?]
Source of text:
- Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Edward Clodd Collection
- Clodd, E. (1916). In: Memories. London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 64-65]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Camille Flammarion
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.267
Summary:
Sending a little work on the philosophy of astronomy [Pluralité des mondes habités].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Summary:
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 January [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.434
Summary:
Received manuscript of JH's translation of third book of Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
2 January 1863
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1863 (216) LXIII, p.6-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D. C. E. van Monckhoven
Date:
[2 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.359 & 24.2
Summary:
Is honored by DM's letter and proposal to dedicate his book [Traité général de photographie] to JH. Points out some errors of attribution he would like incorporated if not too late. Pass on his good wishes to J. A. F. Plateau.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
2 January 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/54
Summary:
Darwin's Origin of Species; ARW's discovery of the principle of natural selection; work on collections from Malay Archipelago, collector still employed there; possibility of engaging a collector in Sandwich Islands; 1862 London International Exhibition; marriage; nephews; American civil war; sending photos of himself.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 10
Summary:
Describes an astounding "sort of mis-begotten-bird-creature", the Archaeopteryx, a grand Darwinian case.
His elephant paper is out in Natural History Review [(1863): 43–114].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.257
Summary:
Concerning Thomas Maclear.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 178
Summary:
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[3 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.3
Summary:
Thanks for a number of items of poetry and sends EC a translation of some poetry by Friedrich Schiller.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
4th. Jan
Source of text:
HS/392a, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.392a (C: RI 520)
Summary:
Asks permission to print extract of JH's letter on heat spots of spectrum of rock salt sample. Hopes JH's son [Alexander] will speak at Royal Institution; JT would help with illustration. Wonders how blue color of water relates to sky color and polarization.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
4 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 58
Summary:
Praises JL’s article ["North American archaeology", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 1–26]
and Hugh Falconer on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.49-50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
5 and 6 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 144: 29
Summary:
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan. 5/63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/99; MS JT/1/TYP/2/521-21a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Mary Helen Dawes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
December 6th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/324A, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Prince of Wales
Date:
5 January 1863
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2/3/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project