Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 28
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.59
Summary:
Responds to a paper by Dr. Barnard, in which is propounded a view of dispersion of light being related to its intensity.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 269, 269b
Summary:
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 308
Summary:
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 100
Summary:
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 24–7
Summary:
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
2 June [1865]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19)
Summary:
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 June [1865]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 130)
Summary:
There is no chance of publication [of Variation] by autumn, because of CD’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[2 June 1865]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.334 (C: TxU:H/L-0459; Reel 1055)
Summary:
Thanks for the memorandum about the lion. Recounts tale about Emperor Hadrian; mentions Joseph Butler, Samuel Butler, and family health problems. Glad that JS recovered from 'ugly accident.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 June [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has lost time through illness.
Suggests an experiment to see whether the progeny of a pigeon cross are affected by a previous impregnation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Freiburg
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 June 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.12, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
3 June 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/204, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[3 June 1865]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H707
Summary:
Comments on GS's 1865-6-1.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[3 June 1865]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H707
Summary:
Returns a paper on Indian meteorology, as he cannot devote time to it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[3] June 1865
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0460; Reel 1055
Summary:
Reviews 'Hughes Map of the World.' Questions on India [H.E.I.C.] investments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 270
Summary:
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
4 June [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.309)
Summary:
Thanks for note; mentions borrowing and returning volumes. Orders a volume containing a paper by R. J. H. Dutrochet ["Recherches sur la volubilité des tiges de certains végétaux et sur la cause de ce phénomène", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 295–303].
Notes that his health is better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
4 June [1865]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/12)
Summary:
Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
4 June 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.299
Summary:
Grateful for JH's welcome present of his article on meteorology, particularly as it contained the author's manuscript additions. Hopes that JH's son was pleased with the reception at Birmingham.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project