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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Text Online
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
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