From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
unknown
Date:
6 May 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/202, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Humphrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1864]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:
Announces a meeting of the Committee of Management for the Hawkhurst National School.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B27
Summary:
Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.
Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
7 May 1864
Source of text:
RBG, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after 7 May 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 47
Summary:
Prescribes "Sod. exsic." with the podophyllin for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
8 May 1864
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 206, no. 545, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.19
Summary:
Is grateful for his communication on the proposed solar eyepiece. Will call round on his way to town to ascertain if he can leave the manuscript with [Thomas?] Cooke, the instrument maker, so that he can have some idea of the work involved. James Nasmyth will pay attention to screen projection.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Spenser Buckingham St John
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9? May 1864
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 11-12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 183
Summary:
Cannot give information about the box of Oxalis bulbs that his brother [Roland Trimen] has forwarded to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 106: B12–13
Summary:
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1864
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B12-13
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 38
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 152-153]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Marsham Adams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.388
Summary:
Thanking him for the return of the manuscript and for his comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 May 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/146
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11/5/64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2264-6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A66–7
Summary:
Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.56
Summary:
Asks JH to review 'magnetical' paper by Edward Sabine.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
12 May 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/146
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Cajetan von Felder
Date:
12 May 1864
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418360
Summary:
Thanks Felder for the beautiful plates of Lepidoptera. The Linnean Society will publish ARW's paper on Papilionidae, which will feature 16 new species, some of which he lists.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[13 May 1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS436
Summary:
Agrees to review paper [see GS's 1864-5-12].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 May 1864
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59)
Summary:
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project