From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[1864-5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.429
Summary:
Introducing his eldest son and his son's newly married wife.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.153
Summary:
Regarding the solar photographs. They are not magnified originals but taken direct. Comments on these photographs. Has had correspondence with W. R. Dawes regarding the 'willow leaves' of James Nasmyth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.369
Summary:
Returns a book of poetry. His family is at Hastings. Sends a theorem.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/977; MS JT/1/HTYP/529, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[3 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.43
Summary:
Comments on some mathematical problems; asks if AD knows about a German geometer by the name of [Bernhard] Riemann; suggests some new names for trigonometry.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Walter Marsham Adams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.385
Summary:
Is sending a manuscript for JH's comments and opinion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[4 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.44
Summary:
Comments on health of family, and on parliament considering a bill to change weights and measures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Walter Marsham Adams
Date:
[4 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.386 & 24.45
Summary:
Acknowledging receipt of the manuscript. JH will be unable to give an opinion as the work is so voluminous that he cannot spare the time, unless WA is prepared to loan it for a long period.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 13
Summary:
Experiment instructions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 181
Summary:
Would like to come to Down to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 105
Summary:
Encloses MS of his paper ["On individual sterility of Oncidium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
His next will be on Passiflora, Disemma, and Tacsonia [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 197–206].
When he receives proofs of his Primula paper he will add CD’s case about equal-styled cowslip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Marsham Adams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.387
Summary:
Apologizing for his mistake in expecting an opinion of his manuscript, but would be glad if JH would read the first section only and comment on it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6 May 1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143)
Summary:
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A75–6
Summary:
Diagrams of short- and long-styled Pulmonaria under magnification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Unidentified
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/3/32/2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32)
Summary:
Recommends paper by John Scott to be read at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, pp. 436–7
Summary:
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project