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DCP-LETT-4614

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 243–5
Summary:

Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.

Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.

Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.

Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2139

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
16th Sept. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1142; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2021, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4615

From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 169: 12
Summary:

CD’s views go hand-in-hand with those of Ludwig Büchner.

He requests an autograph for a friend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2138

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sepr 16th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/250, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10541

From:
George C. Hodgkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.418
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's reply. Gives reasons why he was looking for smaller and more portable instruments to take with him to the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2140

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
17th Sep. 1864.
Source of text:
HS 394a; MS JT/1/TYP/2/528, RS; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3565

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.394a (C: RI 528)
Summary:

Regrets 'stupidity' of Italian post office, which lost note sent to JH suggesting reprinting of passage from Treatise Astr. of 1833 on operations of sun in second edition of JT's book. Also wants to publish JT's 'extremely philosophical views' on muscle contraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
17 Sept 1864
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (11 and 12 June 2002); Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Harland Collection, vol. 1, p. 67, GB127.MS f 091 H15)
Summary:

Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4615F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 119
Summary:

Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2141

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sunday Septb 18
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/32, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4616

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 240–2
Summary:

Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5350

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 September 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 240-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-64-09-19

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 September 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4617

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 70
Summary:

Explains several monstrous flowers sent by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1724

From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.211
Summary:

Acknowledgement of order from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4336

From:
Alfred Potiquet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.180
Summary:

Asks for information on William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7175

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.376
Summary:

JH expressed himself with great precision in the old Discourses. Concerning one of the publications of the B.A.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2142

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
20th, Sep, 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3852, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4619

From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 169: 13
Summary:

Thanks for autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
20 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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