From:
William Francis
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 7th/64
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, St Bride Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 206–7
Summary:
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Arthur Phillips
Date:
8 April 1864
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 April 1864
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 3-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B25–6
Summary:
Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
9 Apr 1864
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Summary:
Regrets that JS has left the [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden and that [J. D.] Hooker is not in a position to secure a foreign appointment for him. Offers financial assistance on the grounds of science.
Has sent JS a copy of the Reader.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
10 April 1864
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 206, no. 543, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library. Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Caroline Deacon
Date:
10 April 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/43
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Gyde
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 11/64
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, St Bride Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203)
Summary:
Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].
If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].
Bad health lately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Horticultural Society
Date:
11 Apr 1864
Source of text:
Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society 4 (1864): 91–3
Summary:
The signatories warn the RHS that in offering prizes for collections of specimens of wild English plants, the Society will cause serious injury to varieties already threatened without any real promotion of scientific botany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[11 April 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207112 (C: RS:HS 24.38)
Summary:
Responds to some of WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. May publish Books I-VI. Comments on Alexander Pope's translation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
12 Apr 1864
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 277)
Summary:
Thanks LA for Methods of study [1863].
Is gratified that he has not taken a personal dislike to CD, though he is strongly opposed to nearly everything CD has written.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bewicke Blackburn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0106; Reel 1087
Summary:
Describes convection phenomenon observed in hot varnish boiler. This may explain sunspots.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
12 Apr 1864
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold at Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:
Instructions concerning the payment of the principal and interest of the mortgage to Mr Childe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richarda Airy
Date:
[12 April 1864]
Source of text:
JHS 2.11
Summary:
Sends congratulations on the Airy's daughter Hilda's engagement to Edward J. Routh; also thanks for the congratulations sent to JH's son William James on his engagement to Emma Hardcastle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 229
Summary:
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
13 April 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A68–74
Summary:
Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Haast
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
14 April 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project