From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[4 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.115
Summary:
On concept formation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isaac Todhunter
Date:
[4 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.116
Summary:
Sends copy of paper on 'projection of the sphere in which the problem is to make any infinitely small figure on the projection similar to that on the sphere,' which he has presented to the Royal Geographical Society.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 176: 164
Summary:
Thanks CD for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Encloses sketch of a climbing French bean.
Tells of a row of non-climbing haricot beans that in good season put out slender climbing shoots.
He has the peach almond in fruit this season.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
9 July [1865]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 4)
Summary:
Thanks BDW for his interesting letter [4839] and for the case of Panagaeus, a genus almost sacred to him since Cambridge days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 July 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 272
Summary:
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Malden
Date:
[11 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.16 & 24.117
Summary:
Requesting information as to where he can find details of the principle that regulates the application of the Greek accents.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 July [1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 219)
Summary:
Thanks THH for reading Pangenesis MS. Will read Buffon and Bonnet (as he does not want to republish their views) and will try to persuade himself not to publish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 72
Summary:
Will forward Robert Caspary’s paper to CD when it is published ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80].
MTM is to become editor of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 30–3
Summary:
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 July 1865]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 21)
Summary:
Wants to borrow money to buy stock in the bridge over the Itchen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bishop of Kingston
Date:
[14 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24:118
Summary:
Is pleased that the bishop found nothing religiously objectionable in JH's two papers, censored by the editor of the Fortnightly Review, in which JH suggested the spiritual origination of force, an idea that JH states has repeatedly appeared in JH's publications.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.32
Summary:
Requests that JH write a few lines to an old friend of HK's in Germany.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 309
Summary:
Did not intend to persuade CD against publishing Pangenesis. Will not take the responsibility, nor risk being made a horrible example 50 years hence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[17 July 1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 221)
Summary:
Has read Buffon; whole pages are like his own. But CD is not converted to non-belief. There is a fundamental distinction between Pangenesis and Buffon. Fears he may not resist publishing it, but will be cautious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 109: B120a–b
Summary:
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Wheeler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.394
Summary:
Offers to lecture to JH's 'association.' Describes microscope equipment designed by EW and son, who now manufactures portable telescopes. Diagrams and questions about new object glasses and compound lenses. Offers free telescope to Alexander Herschel. Progress of Atlantic Cable offers good lecture topic for next session.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edmund Wheeler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.395
Summary:
Thanks JH for letter and explanation. Will contact Charles Pritchard for details. Please forward 'enclosed' to [Alexander Herschel].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 148
Summary:
Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".
The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.363
Summary:
A note to accompany the sending of some papers to JH and the R. A. S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.20
Summary:
Will expect JH on Monday.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project