From:
John Tyndall
To:
James Croll
Date:
10th Feb. 1864
Source of text:
Add MS 41077, f. 9, BL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 February 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207110 (C: RS:HS 24.30)
Summary:
Responds to WW's comments on parts of JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Is sending his rendering of Book V. Has been ill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Rodgers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0457; Reel 1093
Summary:
CR's hypothesis regarding effects of rotation of large masses, like sun and Jupiter, on rotation and orbits of small planets and satellites. Quotes Genesis for support.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.26
Summary:
Thoughts on translation of literature, with comments specifically on JH's Iliad translation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.368
Summary:
Hopes all are well. Comments on Charles Babbage's latest book. Intends telling the truth about James Ivory's delusions. Sends proof that ten is an even number.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 100
Summary:
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 February 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 140-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.273
Summary:
Expecting him soon. Experiments on the National pound.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
James Dickson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
14 February 1864
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection: B D25.L
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.333
Summary:
Will JH and his son [William] come and dine with him this week?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 February 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 79
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 220
Summary:
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
15 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 326
Summary:
A regular column is to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society on successful and failed interspecific crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 142
Summary:
Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].
Death of Francis Boott.
U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 183–5
Summary:
CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.
Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.
Bishop Colenso’s trial.
Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.278
Summary:
Correction to R.A.S. report regarding eyepiece that RH invented for viewing sun, but which was attributed to JH by Charles Pritchard.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041)
Summary:
Sends Hermann Crüger’s paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for publication.
"Boasts" of confirmation that sexes are separate in Catasetum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project