From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 234–5
Summary:
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Warde
Date:
27 August 1864
Source of text:
M4364, unit 18, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
JP Basevi
Date:
27 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/71, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 246
Summary:
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 236–7
Summary:
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
30 August 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Trant, Jr.]
Date:
[30 August 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0728; Reel 1089
Summary:
Responds to [?]'s 'passionate desire to become an astronomer.' Distinguishes between doing astronomy and enjoying its discoveries. Explains training procedures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Theodore Maxwell
Date:
31st Aug. 1864
Source of text:
Letter 7, American Philosophical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project