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DCP-LETT-4522

From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 92
Summary:

Would like to meet CD.

He is writing a piece on the Schleswig-Holstein affair which will expose the British press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4467

From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4523

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A60–1
Summary:

Sends observations on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0646

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[7 June 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Tyndall2103

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Lyon Playfair
Date:
7th June
Source of text:
1--671, Playfair Letters
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel5542

From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.32
Summary:

Sending a draft of a memorial for JH to sign.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4468

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
8 June 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4524

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 108
Summary:

Discusses cost of trip to India and CD’s offer to advance sum. Thanks Hooker for assistance. Would prize a scientific testimonial from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14439

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0528; Reel 1093
Summary:

Encloses description of Col. [J. T.?] Walker's experiments. Asks for JH's opinion of these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8003

From:
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.270
Summary:

Needs to make some adjustment about FW's visit to JH, as FW was not aware that Sunday trains in Britain run differently from other days.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12948

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1864-6-9 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0360.1; Reel 1054
Summary:

Pendulum experiments to be conducted at stations of Great Indian Trigonometrical Survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4469

From:
William Ladd
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 June 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/6/4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 238a–c
Summary:

CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.

Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.

W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4470

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[c. 10 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044)
Summary:

Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4526

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109
Summary:

Sends Passiflora paper [see 4485].

Sends seeds of peloric Antirrhinum crossed by normal form and sends results of his experiments [table of crosses].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4527

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 110
Summary:

Thanks CD for £25. Discusses preparations for trip to India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4528

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
10 June 1864
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:

Letter of recommendation stating his high opinion of John Scott.

Contributor:
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FL-0647

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-4529

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Summary:

CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.

JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.

Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.

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