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DCP-LETT-4463

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 104
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Apr – 5 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: 9
Summary:

Describes difference between Pulmonaria flowers; wishes to know whether it is general.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4482

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15? Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B19–20
Summary:

Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.

Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1935

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James] M. Gilliss
Date:
[15 April 1864]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.12
Summary:

Thanks JG for the receipt of astronomical and meteorological observations made at Washington Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4445

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
16 April 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7810

From:
William Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.18
Summary:

WW's engraving [Distinguished Men of Science Living 1807-8] is selling well. Plans another for scientists of 1846-47. Requests that JH sit for photograph.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David James Brown
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.299)
Summary:

Discusses DJB’s MS concerning the origin of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4466

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A77–81b
Summary:

CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4465

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 301
Summary:

No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.

Pressures of work and family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7785

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Walker
Date:
[18 April 1864]
Source of text:
Bedgebury
Summary:

Agrees to sit for photographic portrait by WW. Thanks for reserving copy of WW's successful [Distinguished Men of Science Living 1807-8] for JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-04-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
19 April 1864
Source of text:
Auckland Central City Library, Grey papers, GL M50(4)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 230
Summary:

Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.

Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2088

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
April 19th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/660; MS JT/1/HTYP/527, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10433

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Maria Sophia Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.39
Summary:

Reluctantly agrees to review a manuscript for a Mr. Adams.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4446

From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 April 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4447

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 April 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FL-1071

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[20 April 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-4469

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 208–13
Summary:

Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2089

From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1864 Ap 20
Source of text:
vol. 2, p. 226, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel6799

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.116
Summary:

Is ready to hear that he is to have a visit from Willie Herschel. Regrets he cannot entertain friends as he used to. Has been laid up with ill-health. Would like information on how to prepare a chemical precipitate as that forming the sun's surface. Warren de La Rue has written to him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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