From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
5 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 24
Summary:
HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Barkly
To:
William Hooker
Date:
5 January 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' correspondence, vol 60, f 39
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Thomson
Date:
5 January 1865
Source of text:
GCA MS TD 1073/4/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Richard von Seebach
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 January 1865
Source of text:
Bl. 30, Nr 67, Loc. J Tit. 6, Dep. C, Herzogliches Staats-Ministerium, Thüringisches Staatsarchiv, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 6, 1865
Source of text:
29 (1865), pp. 162-3, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 38
Summary:
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
6 January 1865
Source of text:
A251 Gunn papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 183
Summary:
Thanks CD for his Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Tells of the birth of his 16th child. Has five grandchildren.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 163
Summary:
Thanks CD for his paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Astonished by CD’s powers of observation and perseverance.
His elms raised from three varieties of weeping elms are doing well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ray Society
Date:
[before 7 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 106r: Minute 1141, 13th January 1865)
Summary:
Concerning the proposed translation of K. F. von Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung (1849).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 257a–c
Summary:
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ryall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.514
Summary:
Asks for JH's opinion of the mathematical work of Professor [George] Boole, who recently died. Needs testimony to get pension for his widow and child.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Karl Hermann Knoblauch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Jan 65
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/24; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2506-7, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8–18 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 4–5
Summary:
Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.
Reader much improved.
Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].
"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 Jan [1865?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.285)
Summary:
Thanks TCE for information about breeding
and for his promise to measure feet of otter-hounds [see Variation 1: 39–40].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 January 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 158-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[9 January 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 5.16
Summary:
Works out the derivation for a mathematical problem, and JH suggests that son John should use this derivation in his paper; it is christening day for William, son of John's sister Caroline. [Also included is a one page letter of family news from sister Julia.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
10th January 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/2/10/324, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Ryall
Date:
[10 January 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0358; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 25.15.21)
Summary:
At JR's request [see JR's 1865-1-7], attests to merits of late George Boole as mathematician, in support of petition for government pension for Boole's widow.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Ryall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.515
Summary:
Thanks JH for his opinion of [George] Boole. It may help his widow and children in their application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project