From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[22 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.274
Summary:
Concerned about AD's health. Offers theory of the constitution of matter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
23 July 1869
Source of text:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 142
Summary:
CD passes on notes prepared for the French translation of Orchids so that his book may be brought up to date in English as well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules Joseph Fleury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 136
Summary:
Wants to know whether CD is related to Edward Darwin, who married a French woman in 1823.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.37
Summary:
Thanks JH for his letter and package of his writings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 140–2
Summary:
An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.
Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].
Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Charlotte Lloyd
Date:
[24 July 1869]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 383)
Summary:
Forwards letter from W. B. Dawkins. The bones, though not themselves interesting, may indicate the work of prehistoric man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
24 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 297
Summary:
Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.112
Summary:
Cites various celestial appearances as a basis for concluding that the Milky Way takes the form, not of a disk or ring, but of a series of convolutions. Urges that the nebulae form part of the Milky Way rather than being separate universes, as many had suggested. Asks JH to critique these ideas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 97
Summary:
Cannot help CD with his request for calcareous sponges.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.31-32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH & his wife have returned from Scythia via Stockholm, Wiborg [Vyborg], Helsingfors [Helsinki], the Swedish lakes, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Neuenhausen, Utrecht, Leyden, Amsterdam, Hage [Hague] & Rotterdam. He is tired of rail travel & hotels, he would prefer a tent in the jungle or a cabin at sea. JDH regrets that Gray has given up on the FL[ORA]. AM[ERICANA]. BOR[EALIS]. He describes Regel's poor organisation [of the International Botanical Congress] at St Petersburg, including the absence of any Russian botanists except [Alexander Andrejewitsch von] Bunge. A good 'show' was put on & many medals awarded, there was some misreporting of the medals given in the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. JDH does not like St Petersburg, he prefers Moscow. They stayed with the Andersons in Stockholm, met old Fries, Theodor Fries & [Johnan Erhard] Areschoug in Upsala [Uppsala] & spent a day each with Reichenbach & Booth in Hamburgh [Hamburg]. He admires the antiquities museums of Stockholm & Denmark. They saw Wendland's Palms at Utrecht & stayed with Miguel. JDH returned to a lot of work at RBG Kew, including the matter of opening the gardens in the morning, he thinks it is the right thing to do but will mean reorganisation & a lot of additional work for him as so much of the running of Kew depends on him personally. He is made of strong stuff so can handle the work but he expects [John] Smith, Curator of the Gardens, will be overwhelmed. JDH mentions the state of his personal finances & describes himself as 'living hand to mouth'. Concludes with news that Darwin is in North Wales & very unwell, Bentham & Baker are on holiday, the latter in Geneva, & [Thomas] Thomson is well.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.406
Summary:
Health is not good. Is not up to the theory of atoms. Have had broiling heat for many weeks.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Cranmer Penrose
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.336
Summary:
A note to accompany a paper by FP on the prediction of occultations and eclipses.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
26 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.278, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Cajetan von? Felder?
Date:
26 July 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418396
Summary:
Letter of introduction for Henry Deane, who is visiting Vienna.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 180: 16
Summary:
Acclimatisation of potatoes by selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dudley Campbell
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.5509:92)
Summary:
Sends cheque for £5 as subscription to Westminster Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Merle Norman
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:
Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Jul 1869
Source of text:
HS 24.275, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 131
Summary:
Progressing with translation of new footnotes for Orchids. Asks for help with a few words.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[30 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24:275
Summary:
Attached comments [not included] convey JH's views on MS's new manuscript [On Molecular and Microscopical Science, 1869]. Expresses reservations about MS's endorsement of current ideas of forces and their correlation and conservation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project