From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Aug 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 148
Summary:
Thanks CD for his interesting papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Wedgwood, H. E.
Date:
1 August 1867
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 21
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Benjamin?] [Coleman?]
Date:
1 August 1867
Source of text:
Coleman, B. (1867). Extraordinary manifestations in London. The Spiritual Magazine : Series New series, 2 : 346-351 [pp. 349-350]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1867]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Am.230
Summary:
Expresses thanks for JH sending JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Endorses JH's use of hexameter verse. Looks forward to reading it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.157, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Leonor Fresnel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.382
Summary:
Engaged in bringing out a new edition of A. J. Fresnel's works and has some queries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1867
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16
Summary:
Comments on proof-sheets of Variation.
His revisions of Principles of geology, 10th ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 171–172)
Summary:
Asks whether JM is interested in publishing A. E. Brehm, Illustrirtes Thierleben [4 vols. (1864–7)], which has had immense sale on the continent.
Is making good progress with proofs [of Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks WBT for proofs of his new book [Pigeons (1868)].
Hopes he still intends to try the experiment with dyed pigeons.
Was surprised to hear of B. P. Brent’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 267 (fragile)
Summary:
Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].
Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
169, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Matthew Arnold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.408
Summary:
Thanking him for sending the translation of Friedrich Schiller [Schillers Spaziergang, Translated into Latin Verse, 1867].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 349
Summary:
He is unacquainted with Brehm’s work [Thierleben]. Asks that a volume be sent so he can form an opinion on publishing it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.158, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 330
Summary:
Will do his best to get observations on expression among the Chinese.
Reports observations on hedgehogs collecting fruit with their spines.
Discusses the domestic pig of Formosa, its wild ancestors, and its capacity to breed with other races.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
6 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
S. J. Hessel (private collection)
Summary:
Sends the four volumes [of Brehm’s Thierleben] for Murray’s consideration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Ferdinand Krauss
Date:
6 August 1867
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
7 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 10 (EH 88206062)
Summary:
Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 August 1867
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.371
Summary:
Thanks JH for translation of [Friedrich] Schiller's 'The Walk.' Reform bill will again be before the House tomorrow. Denounces mischief of the Radicals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project