From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 101
Summary:
Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/197, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023)
Summary:
Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.
Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 223
Summary:
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
12 March 1864
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no. 542, folder 206, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.11; Reel 10
Summary:
Alterations to proofs of JH's plate [on sunspots].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 103
Summary:
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.200
Summary:
[Charles?] Pritchard has embittered the subject so he must just acknowledge the receipt of JH's letter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.12; Reel 10
Summary:
Alterations to proofs of JH's plate [on sunspots]. Explains tinting process.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Arrow
Date:
14 March 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/143
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
John F Fryer
Date:
15 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/21/11, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 85, 173–4
Summary:
Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 March 1864]
Source of text:
RGO 6.358.278
Summary:
Is unable to attend another meeting of the Standards Committee, due to severe illness; describes the best way to pack the standards away, and talks about the strange behavior of gallic acid.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Sidney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pusey
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1864?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[16 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 116
Summary:
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 188
Summary:
List of four plants sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.13; Reel 10
Summary:
Apologizes for printer's misspelling of JH's name on plate. Encloses letter from Hanhart Lithographers with suggestions on tinting JH's plate of solar spots.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[16 March 1864]
Source of text:
JHS 5.13
Summary:
Announces son William's engagement to Emma Hardcastle; warns son John against the Anglo-Indian ladies; JH comments at length on a problem in surveying, and concludes with the news that daughter Francisca's health is improving.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
17 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/198, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 224
Summary:
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project