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FVM-64-04-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
April 1864
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 213, no. 624, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4378F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[c. 10 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
The Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/856)
Summary:

Has seen that ARW has read a paper to the Linnean Society.

Thinks that Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics (Spencer 1851) would be too deep for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4444

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 226a–b
Summary:

Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6679

From:
John Curwen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1864-4]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.383
Summary:

Is about to provide a tuning fork for C and would like JH's permission to call it the 'Herschel C.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4443

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 106
Summary:

References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2079

From:
C. K. Akin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/60, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4445

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222
Summary:

JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.

John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2077

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editors of The Reader
Date:
2nd April.
Source of text:
461 (1864), p. 461, The Reader
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4446

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 172: 41
Summary:

Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6452

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.220
Summary:

Thanks for sending the paper in the Quarterly Journal. Comments on the importance of some of the points raised.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9220

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[2 April 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207111 (C: RS:HS 24.36)
Summary:

Thanks WW for comments on Book V of JH's Iliad translation; sending Book VI. JH's son William and JH's daughters enjoyed visiting WW. Has suffered for three months from severe bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5703

From:
W. Bonsey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.193
Summary:

Regarding a tenant for Herschel House. Family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4005

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 April 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Tyndall2078

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 2/64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/646, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7738

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.16; Reel 10
Summary:

Forwards paper by Henry Draper of New York.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9372

From:
Alexander Elder
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.124
Summary:

Would like JH's recommendation to obtain a place in Greenwich School for a foster son of his own.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-1264

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[4 April 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2236
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-4448

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 202
Summary:

JDH has written to J. H. Balfour for a character reference for John Scott.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2080

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/952; MS JT/1/HTYP/526, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2081

From:
Joseph Gill
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 477-8, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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