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DCP-LETT-4823

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 74
Summary:

Sends some figures on long- and short-styled primroses for "Uncle Ch".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel979

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.56a
Summary:

HH has nominated JH's son Alexander to fill a post become vacant by the death of Robert FitzRoy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4825

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 267
Summary:

Feels a little better, but sickness continues.

Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4824

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 306
Summary:

Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].

Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4548

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
May 1865
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 470-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11525

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.440
Summary:

Has just received the accompanying letter from James Croll so that JH can save himself the trouble of answering CL's query.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4826

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 20–1
Summary:

On FitzRoy’s suicide.

The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-65-05-02

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 May 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel981

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Holland
Date:
[2 May 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.56c
Summary:

Writes to thank HH for his kindness in nominating son Alexander for the meteorological post [see HH's 1865-5-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4009

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
3 May 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/73
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4827

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 268a–b
Summary:

On FitzRoy’s life and character.

Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.

Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11890

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.252
Summary:

Thanks for copies of his interesting and conclusive letters. Has just returned to Edinburgh and has not yet seen Miss Elizabeth Drummond. Hopes the delightful weather has relieved JH's bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5656

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.145
Summary:

Notifying him of a forthcoming meeting of the Lunar Committee of the B.A.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4190

From:
A. B. Power
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.186
Summary:

Accepts position at Blackheath Preparatory School.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001446

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
5 May 1865
Source of text:
MM/19/43, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel8413

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[5 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.155
Summary:

Has sent RW a copy of JH's catalog of nebulae and also a biographical sketch of JH's father. Thanks RW for and praises RW's works on sun spots and on the aurora borealis. Notes that G. B. Airy is now disposed to accepting the existence of solar 'willow leaves.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-M65-05-05

From:
the Medical Society of Victoria
To:
Australian medical practitioners
Date:
5 May 1865
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
6 May [1865]
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[6 May 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.14 (C: RS:HS 24.108)
Summary:

Further comments on the theory of glacier formation, urging causes beyond merely astronomical ones.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4375

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[6 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.109
Summary:

Signing himself 'A.B.C.D.,' asks whether a priest is guilty of perjury for having refused to testify regarding a murder on the grounds that this would violate the seal of the confessional.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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