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DCP-LETT-4748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 258a–c
Summary:

"Climbing plants" sent off.

Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.

Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]

and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].

Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.

Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!

"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6717

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.34
Summary:

Says JH will receive an official letter of thanks from the administration of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle for the meteorite samples [see GD's 1865-1-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4749

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 6
Summary:

Cannot come until week from Saturday.

Worked to death by Genera plantarum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4751

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 114
Summary:

Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].

Describes his situation in Calcutta.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4750

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B20–1
Summary:

His distress that his engagement has been broken off.

Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;

"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4101

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 January 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B20-21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-65-01-21a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Lindley
Date:
21 January 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Herbarium, World Collection, Australia folder Gastrolobium grandiflorum F. Muell., (B&H) 57.22.18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[21 January 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #37 (Transcription inc: #38)
Summary:

Lists works received. Has been suffering severely from bronchitic attacks. Is translating Iliad into hexameter verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304)
Summary:

Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.

Agrees with CL on beauty.

Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].

CD’s illness.

CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Walford
Date:
22 [Jan-Apr] 1865
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237)
Summary:

CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4753

From:
Henry Denny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 80: B150–1
Summary:

Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11103

From:
Edward John Jennings
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.440
Summary:

Regrets that illness prevented JH's attendance at the Finance Committee. Gives the reasons why a change of uniform is necessary for the Rifle Volunteers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6716

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.33
Summary:

Officially writes on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle to thank JH for his assistance in providing samples of the South African meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7584

From:
Henry Herman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.101; Reel 9
Summary:

Received seven copies [of JH's Cape Results]. Will forward these to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6803

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.120
Summary:

Is grateful for her letter of condolence on the death of his niece. Is thankful to hear of the safe arrival of her son. His own health is better.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1265

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.29
Summary:

Commiserates with JH in his illness, and says CB is ill also and confined to his house. Seeing JH's letter in the Philosophical Magazine [see JH's 1864-12-20] seems to CB to obviate completely the need for any further response.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-65-01-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 January 1865
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 42, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-01-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
René Lenormand
Date:
25 January 1865
Source of text:
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Phanerogamie, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-01-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 January 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4520

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Hunter Mahoney Christie
Date:
25 January 1865
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 470
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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