From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Fedor Thomas
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.432
Summary:
Not too familiar with JH's work, as FT's work has taken him out of the area of JH's interest. Has very limited time for mathematics, but indicates his current interest. Refers to some writings of FT on topics of weights, measures, and monetary matters.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 218–19
Summary:
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 218-19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
14th, May, 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3848-9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Hector Tyndale
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/5/1661-3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 233
Summary:
Praises ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 233
Summary:
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144)
Summary:
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 106
Summary:
Thanks for communicating Oncidium sterility paper [see 4485] to Linnean Society.
Surprised that CD’s seedlings of non-dimorphic cowslip breed true.
Surprised also that the red primrose he sent reverts to wild form. He had reasoned from red’s infertility with yellow that it was an established variety. Tries to correlate inheritance of colour and sterility between varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[16 May 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207113 (C: RS:HS 24.46)
Summary:
Sends Book VII of JH's Iliad translation. Son William to be married Thursday. JH continues to be ill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 94
Summary:
Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bewicke Blackburn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.74
Summary:
Regarding his own experiments with the froth of boiling oil.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
17th May 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/663; MS JT/1/HTYP/528, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 6
Summary:
Glad to hear CD well again.
Will send Lythrum hyssopifolium flowers from Botanic Garden if they are in bloom; does not know where to find wild specimen, but thinks they are same as garden type.
Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[18 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 118
Summary:
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A83–6, A94
Summary:
Sends Pulmonaria anthers, with measurements of styles and pollen counts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project