From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 300
Summary:
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 3
Summary:
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
16th. January 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/481, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Shepherd
Date:
[17 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.142
Summary:
Responds to GS's 1864-1-16.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
18 January 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/187, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 255
Summary:
On his deathbed her husband [Francis] expressed admiration for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 January 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert Goodwin Mumbray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 318–318/1
Summary:
Has verified J. M. Bechstein’s contention that species of finches hybridise.
Quotes Thomas Bewick’s observations on hybrids between pheasants and common fowl. RGM had often noticed so-called "pheasant fowl", but thought it was a foreign bird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 17
Summary:
Collecting subscriptions for a school at Ford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/2.2; Reel 10
Summary:
Formulas for determining rotation rates of sunspots relative to latitude on solar surface. Believes equatorial parts of photosphere are dragged faster than others. Speculates on rotation rate of solid body below (if such exists).
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Shepherd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.143
Summary:
The argument continues [see JH's 1864-1-17 & GS's 1864-1-16].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Gustav Kirchhoff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19ten Jan. 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/8, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Emerson Tennent
Date:
19 January 1864
Source of text:
Y. Watanabe
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 January 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.71-72, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 15/5.2; Reel 11
Summary:
Gratitude for JH's gift of Caroline Herschel's autograph manuscripts to R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe and Joseph Baxendell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0305.1; Reel 1054
Summary:
[Printed notice] Next meeting of Literary and Philosophical Society will be 26 Jan.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.4; Reel 10
Summary:
Needs Zeitschrift volume; then JH may have it back [see JS's 1864-1-15]. JH's article should be 10-12 pages. Compliments JH's writings as popular without being 'popularising.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
M. Hume
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.25b
Summary:
A note to say that MH is returning JH's dress coat by train.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
20 January 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/60
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 278
Summary:
Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.
CD was right about Catasetum sexes.
Ficus experiments fail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project