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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B17
Summary:

Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[George Bentham]
Date:
1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
George Maxwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1864
Source of text:
MEL 1510109, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
George Maxwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1864
Source of text:
MEL 9035, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:

[No informatiion about content.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1864-1873
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 January 1864
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 31-32
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 148]
Summary:

Darwin expresses a desire to know ARW's recent activities. Darwin comments on a letter he received from Asa Gray 2 or 3 weeks prior to the date of this letter which mentions ARW.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[1864–5?]]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1634
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1864?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 18-19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/503, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Summary:

JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Jane Moore
Date:
1864
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 466-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[G. Wharton Simpson?]
Date:
[1864 to 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0745; Reel 1089
Summary:

If enclosed item is accepted for publication in Photographic News, JH wants to inspect its press, especially 'as respects the Cipher,' and to receive 25 copies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.8
Summary:

Reports on G. B. Airy's analysis [R.S.P.T., 153,. 617-] of 177 magnetic storms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. R. H.[?]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.155
Summary:

Asks that consideration be given to 'wishes of the Cadet' in selecting a regiment for him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.14
Summary:

About geodesic books and JH's encouragement to John to keep asking questions; indeed JH is almost insistent on son John's writing to JH with questions, book needs, and confidences. JH also talks about finding the arithmetical mean of a number of observations. [Also included is the 1st page of a letter to John from one of his sisters.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864-1 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0602.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Encloses copy of JH's essay entitled The Yard, the Pendulum, & the Metre... (1863). Speculates on causes for deviation in pendulum measurements. Recommends using torsion gravimeters in 'proposed operation.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.2
Summary:

In response to the gift of a book, JH comments on the philosophy of knowledge, and goes on to say that JH agrees with [John Stuart ?] Mill's rejection of the syllogism as a means of argument. In the postscript, JH comments on the nature of heat.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.257-258, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project