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DCP-LETT-4630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 251
Summary:

Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].

CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4500

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ira Erastus Davenport and William Henry Harrison Davenport
Date:
8 October 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall2147

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9. Oct. 64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2268-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4631F

From:
James Buckman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 1
Summary:

Sends a poem about sowing kidney beans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4631A

From:
John Cook Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4
Summary:

Encloses an extract concerning beans from the Systema Horticultureæ of 1688 by J. Worlidge. Will be pleased to lend the volume if needed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1258

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.21
Summary:

Would like JH's permission to make public JH's letter of 1826-11-14 in defence of the conduct of the late Humphry Davy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2149

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1185; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2027, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4632

From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 169: 14
Summary:

Requests photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2150

From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct 11th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/O/3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2152

From:
Andrew Ramsay
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Oct 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/5; MS JT/1/TYP/3/1007-8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Buxton
Date:
12 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A36–7
Summary:

Has heard that the yeast in CB’s brewery has failed. Asks for confirmation and answers to some questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4634

From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 162: 180
Summary:

In response to CD’s notice in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 93], sends planting times of peas from an 1861 almanac.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-64-10-12

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 October 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1139

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
12 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.75-78, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall2151

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Wednesday | 12th Oct. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/233; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2026, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2153

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
13th Oct. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/189, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2154

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
13th Oct. 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/2022, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-13791

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
14 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 )
Summary:

Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.

Sends photograph of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5045

From:
Georg F. J. A. Auwers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.424
Summary:

Thanking him for his catalogue of nebulae. Gives amendments to his own readings of the observations of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11140

From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.28
Summary:

Mrs. Polko was gratified by JH's translation of Frederick Schiller's poem. She would like a photograph and autograph of JH now, and wonders if he would like a photo of her brother Edoard Vogel? HK would like some additional copies of JH's translations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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