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Herschel12227

From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.84
Summary:

Regrets Lady Herschel cannot visit them, but is pleased they are to receive JH and his daughter. Mrs. Nasmyth is writing regarding trains and they will be met at Penshurst.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2074

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 May 1864
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 13-15
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 18-19]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3804

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1864
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel4361

From:
Alfred Potiquet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.179
Summary:

Discusses work on biographies of scientific men.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4508

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A89–93, B48–50
Summary:

Encloses drawings of Menyanthes and Pulmonaria anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-64-05-24b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 May 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 146
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-05-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 May 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 145
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-05-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 May 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 182
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel3317

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[24 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.234
Summary:

Reports on Edward Sabine's paper [R.S.P.T., 154, 227-] comparing magnetic disturbances at Kew and Nertschinsk. Makes suggestion regarding period of solar spots and other matters, but deems paper worthy of publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP1585

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
24 May [1864]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/5/5(39)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4867

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
24 May [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4509

From:
William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 147
Summary:

Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-64-05-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Areschoug
Date:
25 May 1864
Source of text:
J. E. Areschoug brefsamling, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M64-05-25

From:
George Sprigg
To:
H. Butler
Date:
25 May 1864
Source of text:
No. 64/319 p. 599, unit 3, VPRS 2225 outwards letter book, Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel891

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[25 May 1864]
Source of text:
JHS 5.11
Summary:

Positively responds to son John's idea of geodesic measurements of much larger than usual triangles; suggests that John is not likely to be able to correct the whole world's English; JH reports about sickness in the family including his own seemingly permanent bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-05-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Albert Purchas
Date:
26 May 1864
Source of text:
Letter book 1, no. 189, Melbourne General Cemetery
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1424

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
27 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1255
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Faraday4458

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 May 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/145
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP1858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 [May] 1864
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 39-42
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 153-155]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79)
Summary:

Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids

– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.

Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.

How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?

He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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