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DCP-LETT-4382

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant , 19 December 1863, p. 8.
Summary:

Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].

Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1418

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 January 1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS428a
Summary:

Note accompanying report on paper by G. B. Airy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5512

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
7 January 1864
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-64-01-08

From:
Nevil Maskelyne
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 January 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M76, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
8 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Glad correspondent’s paper went well.

Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14593

From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0579.1; Reel 1093
Summary:

G. B. Airy's paper has been received at R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4383

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
9 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 93: B29–30
Summary:

CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 January 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 216
Summary:

References ARW's letter to Darwin of 2 Jan 1864 about Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:

CD very ill.

Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.

CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.

Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.

[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4384

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 44
Summary:

JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4422

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 January 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7724

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.2; Reel 10
Summary:

At request of William Crookes, JS [editor of new Quarterly Journal of Science] invites JH to submit original article on sunspots. Promises liberal honorarium . See article on sunspots by C. A. F. Peters in Zeitschrift für populäre Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Astronomie und verwandter Wissenchaften.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4423

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
13 January 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4385

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 99
Summary:

Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.

Sends promised Linum seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2063

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/223, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4424

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
14 January 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7725

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.3; Reel 10
Summary:

Encloses copy of C. A. F. Peters's article in Zeitschrift für populäre Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Astronomie und verwandter Wissenchaften. Please submit JH's article on sunspots by February. Audience of Quarterly Journal of Science are 'intelligent students of other branches and intelligent laymen.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7739

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.1; Reel 10
Summary:

RC's book [Observations of the Spots on the Sun] is done. First copy, exhibited at R.A.S. last week, was well reported in R.A.S.M.N. Will send copy to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4543

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.85
Summary:

Thanks JH for solar observations. Discusses 'willow leaves' observations made at Greenwich Observatory after following JH's suggestions for solar eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1655

From:
George Shepherd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.141
Summary:

Argues against JH's position that weather forecasts cannot be made for more than 48 hours in advance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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