From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.374
Summary:
Regarding the antiquity of the + and - signs. Origin of quid vides.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89)
Summary:
Has finished Climbing plants;
resuming work on Variation.
Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].
Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 249a–b
Summary:
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
13 September 1864
Source of text:
WIHM MS 7844/83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project