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Herschel11941

From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.303
Summary:

While in Switzerland requested his wife to send to JH a little tract on Count de S. Robert's hypsometrical investigations. Found that Robert's formulae worked correctly for ordinary European heights. Realizes that JH demolished Robert's theories, but Robert also showed observations on P. S. Laplace's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2109

From:
Albert Smith Bickmore
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 September 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 82-83
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6372

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 221
Summary:

Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6371

From:
John Syer Bristowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 311
Summary:

Reports a case of peculiar colouring in grapes, each with well-defined segments of purple.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6373

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 44
Summary:

Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.

Asks advice on books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6370

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 165
Summary:

Reached Kew last evening.

Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6371F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 253
Summary:

Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12381

From:
Emilien Frossard Pasteur
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.238
Summary:

Remembers when JH introduced him to the Museum of Geology in Jermyn St.. Would like to exchange some rocks and minerals for some English fossils. Can JH advise him to whom to write?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Higgins
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/17/8)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6376

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 360
Summary:

JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6375

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A14–17
Summary:

Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4082

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 September [1868]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 82: A14-17
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/59
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • British Library, The: BL Add 46434 ff.151-152
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 223-225]
Summary:

Lays out his argument in response to Darwin's views on the colouration of females, in general terms and then specifically in relation to butterflies.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
19 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 352
Summary:

Discusses papers by JC dealing with erosion. Comments on papers on the subject by J. B. Jukes, A. C. Ramsay, and William Whitaker. Formerly believed in power of the sea. Never fully realised the truth until reading JC’s papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
19 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms299/5)
Summary:

Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].

Suggests books on Lobelia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[19 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.227
Summary:

Thanks RM for the double star observations he has sent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6381

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 45
Summary:

Sends an addition to Lobelia paper; admires adaptations for fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6383

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 222
Summary:

Discusses the top-knot turkey and the occasional appearance of the top-knot in a breed of cream-coloured turkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-68-09-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 September 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 347
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11918

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.280
Summary:

Comments on double star observations and some papers on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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