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Herschel7736

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.14; Reel 10
Summary:

'Private & confidential.' Asks JH to recommend reliable writer for 'Chronicles of Astronomy' section in Quarterly Journal of Science. Has purchased and will amalgamate with Edinburgh [New] Philosophical Journal. [JH annotation: Recommended [Edward] Brayley and [Robert] Grant].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4437

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
24 March 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-64-03-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
25 March 1864
Source of text:
Martiusiana II, A, 2, Handschriften-Abteilung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.This collection also contains an undated copy of M's letter in the hand of his assistant, Ernst Heyne, which has some minor changes and omissions of text while the middle part of the letter is missing
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-03-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 March 1864
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 2, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26[–7] Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 225
Summary:

John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.

Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000926

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
28 March 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/201, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Tyndall2075

From:
C. K. Akin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/59, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11102

From:
Edward John Jennings
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.439
Summary:

Hopes that JH will be able to attend the dinner of the 38th Kent Rifle Volunteers on 5 April.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4438

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 103
Summary:

Surprised at CD’s account of Bryanthus.

H. Crüger’s approach to Gongora fertilisation is beset with difficulties.

Reports his work on self-sterility of Oncidium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1263

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[29 March 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2235
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-4439

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 193–7
Summary:

John Scott’s career.

Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.

Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.

Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7737

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.15; Reel 10
Summary:

Thanks JH for recommendations [see JS's 1864-3-24]. Plans new section in Quarterly Journal of Science to review recent events in science. Shall avoid 'craving for novelty' evident in other publications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54)
Summary:

Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5702

From:
W. Bonsey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.192
Summary:

Would like a photograph of JH. Recent and forthcoming events connected with Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4441

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 112
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of her book [Botany for novices (1864?)], intended to encourage the young, especially ladies, to study nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4374

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
30 [Mar 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B118
Summary:

Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;

recounts other family news.

Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2076

From:
John Tyndall
To:
C. K. Akin
Date:
Wednesday
Source of text:
29 (1864), pp. 221-2, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4417

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 81, 104
Summary:

Encloses memorandum on tendrils. Nature of tendrils in Modecca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4528

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.91
Summary:

Forwards letter concerning 'solar bright particles' by W. R. Dawes. Inquires if diagonal solar eyepiece used in JH's solar spectrum observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
31 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 44 (EH 88206027)
Summary:

Asks DO to give enclosed [letter?] from John Scott to Hooker.

JS’s work on orchid self-sterility; Acropera has 371250 seeds in one capsule.

Wishes something could be done for Scott.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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