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From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.40
Summary:

Sending a little volume of poetry written by his wife.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
18 Dec 1869
Source of text:
HS 16.380, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
18 Dec 1869
Source of text:
195, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.380
Summary:

Sends Christmas greetings to family. Still has her intellect and is staying busy. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for visiting Agnes [Greig].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 109: B125–6
Summary:

Discusses dimorphic and trimorphic plants; mentions especially Rubiaceae and a dimorphic monocotyledon.

Notes observations on the monstrous male flowers of Begonia,

and on self-sterile plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas A. Hirst
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.196
Summary:

Asks JH to sign a certificate for Fellowship of the R.S.L. of [William Stanley] Jevons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project