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FVM-64-10-00a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[George Bentham]
Date:
October 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-10-00b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[George Bentham]
Date:
October 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Library, Bentham, George, Flora australiensis, annotated interleaved set, vol. 4 (London 1864), facing p. 447.These volumes of Bentham (1863-78) have been bound with the printed pages interleaved with blue, lined writing paper, on many of which annotations have been made in Bentham's hand. This fragment, possibly an enclosure to another letter, is pasted on to the leaf facing p. 447 of vol. 2 as published, opposite the description of Eucryphia Moorei, which describes the plant as 'a handsome tree' of New South Wales, collected by C. Moore near the sources of the Clyde and Shoalhaven rivers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1459

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-10-1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.260, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel7176

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.377
Summary:

Has long advocated the right to contract. Has no fear that the metrical system will become compulsory. American named J. W. Nystrom wishes to introduce a unit of 16. Comments on the Bible being 'every word of it is God's word.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-10-03

From:
Ernest Giles
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 October 1864
Source of text:
H16497 Leichhardt papers, box 13/6(a), La Trobe Australian Manuscript Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4625

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 144
Summary:

Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.

Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4624

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 205)
Summary:

Admires THH’s article on Kölliker’s and Flourens’ criticisms of Origin [in Natural History Review (1864): 566–80].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12288

From:
James Robert Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.144
Summary:

Professor W. J. M. Rankine lent JN JH's paper on the meter, yard, and foot. Would JH present a copy to the Institution of Engineers in Scotland? JN is president at the moment and hopes to introduce this subject. Hopes that JH will publish any further ideas he has on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11164

From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.52
Summary:

Was pleased with JH's weighty and judicious rebuke. Sends a copy of a letter he wrote to the Times concerning religion and the natural sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4626

From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 231
Summary:

Sends £10 for Down charities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2146

From:
Andrew Ramsay
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5. Oct 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/4; MS JT/1/TYP/3/1006, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4627

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 302
Summary:

Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4628

From:
John Beck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 103–103/4
Summary:

Has heard about but not read Origin; is concerned that it may contribute to unbelief. Gives many pages of scriptural quotations and exegesis on the creation of earth, species, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3118

From:
Joseph A. F. Plateau
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.168
Summary:

Submits some observations concerning the experiment mentioned in JH's last letter [1864-9-25]. Discusses in detail his results of an experiment concerning the impossibility of a stable equilibrium. Decides stable equilibrium exists only in vertical position, not in horizontal. Sends another copy of his latest paper. Mentions a printing error in his memoir concerning molecular attraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4498

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 October 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/150
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11274

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.167
Summary:

Encloses lithographs of some of his drawings of nebulae, and two tracings of [?] 2241. Has presented his large equatorial to Melbourne and invited the Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] to Malta to observe through the telescope before it is dispatched to Australia. Would also welcome a visit from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4497

From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 October 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/149
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4499

From:
Ira Erastus Davenport and William Henry Harrison Davenport
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c.7 October 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1864]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1864): 965
Summary:

Asks anyone who possesses a treatise on gardening, or an almanac, one or two centuries old, to look up what date is given as the proper period for sowing scarlet runners or dwarf French beans. CD wants to ascertain whether these plants can now be sown earlier than was formerly the case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4631G

From:
George Edward Frere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 2
Summary:

Responds to the letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 8 October 1864].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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