From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B23–4
Summary:
Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[February 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 115
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.339
Summary:
Encloses a paper on a hail and snow storm, which hand over to the British Meteorological Society when he has read it. Would JH request the R.S.L. Secretary to re-suspend his certificate as he understands he has a good chance of being elected this year.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/103, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
February? [1864]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 61
Summary:
Would like his fowl skulls back.
Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Sterry Hunt
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
February 1, 1864
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 236-7, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
2 February 1864
Source of text:
ML MSS.139/43 Clarke family papers, folder 200, pp. 641-4, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), pp. 664-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
François N. M. Moigno
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1864}-2-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.357
Summary:
Regarding JH's article in Good Words.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.3; Reel 10
Summary:
Copy of RC's book will be sent to JH from R.S.L. Thanks JH's son for letter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1864 February 3
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/38; MS JT/1/TYP/1/28, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Gustav Kirchhoff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3ten Febr. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Alexander Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0227; Reel 1087
Summary:
Committee to reexamine Parliamentary standards of length and measure will meet on 11 Feb. in office of comptroller-general of Exchequer [Thomas Spring-Rice]. If committee desires to compare three copies of Standards, those copies will be brought to Exchequer office.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.54
Summary:
Discusses printing of JH's catalogue of nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.55
Summary:
Sends R.S.L. Council's formal acknowledgement of star catalogue manuscript [see JH's 1863-12-4].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John C. Broun
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.110
Summary:
Further regarding the lectureship at the Cape of Good Hope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Strahan & Co.
Date:
[4 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.29
Summary:
Comments and will consider writing on article subjects proposed by Dr. [Norman?] McLeod. Requests Hebrew version of Genesis, chapter 1, with pronunciation and translation guides.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.25
Summary:
Thanks for further translations from JH and could HK have an extra copy for a dear friend.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201
Summary:
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
