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DCP-LETT-4928

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 150
Summary:

Has made observations on pollination mechanism in Medicago sativa [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 327–9], which his brother-in-law [J. D. Hooker] would accept. Wants to check that CD has not already made them.

Also sends interpretation of Salvia.

His observations come from following CD’s generalisation in Origin [p. 79] on necessity of out-crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2027

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bartholomew Price
Date:
[1 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.58 (C: RS:HS 24.126)
Summary:

Offers solutions to some of the problems in BP's Infinitesimal Calculus about which BP asked [see BP's 1865-10-28]. Raises a problem in probability theory regarding archery targets for BP.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9231

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1865-11]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207122 (C: RS:HS 24.130)
Summary:

Thanks WW for and comments on his suggestions on JH's translation of Book XXIV of Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4929F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
[2–5 Nov 1865]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 328 n.
Summary:

Reports the results of an experiment to compare the weight of seeds produced in plants of [Medicago sativa] by self-pollination and by insect pollination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
2 Nov [1865]
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80)
Summary:

Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.

Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6185

From:
Joseph Baxendell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.310
Summary:

Is sending the proofs of his recent communication for his correction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4330

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 43–6
Summary:

Kew affairs.

H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.

Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9229

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[3 November 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207119 (C: RS:HS 24.127)
Summary:

Sends Book XXIV of JH's Iliad translation. Pleased with his translation, but worries whether a publisher will take it. JH's daughter Maria enjoyed visiting WW; daughter Amelia arriving soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9228

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.219
Summary:

Delighted by visit from JH's daughter Maria and her new husband. Looks forward to meeting Mr. Prescott [see JH's 1865-10-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4929A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21 , 2: 76–7.
Summary:

Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].

Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.

CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.

CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.

The vegetation on Desterro is changing.

Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4933

From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 164: 35
Summary:

Grateful for CD’s approval of Chapters on language.

Is inclined to believe that the races of man were primordially distinct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4930

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 149
Summary:

Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.

CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4931

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 151
Summary:

Pleased CD confirms his observations on Salvia.

Spring action of Medicago stamens described.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC985

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mrs Susan Emma Smith
Date:
6 November 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/23/2 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel5029

From:
Neil Arnott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.410
Summary:

Thanking him for his note. Relates events while in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2546

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[10 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.455 (C: RS:HS 24.128)
Summary:

Asks that AS show JH's son Alexander around Norwich when he arrives there. Reflects on changes in geology. Has finished hexameter Iliad translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4934

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 40
Summary:

Has heard from Huxley that CD has been ill.

Progress on his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] has been slow.

Has been named "ordentlicher Professor". Has 150 listeners in his lectures on CD’s theory.

Thanks CD for copy [of "Climbing plants"].

Sends his book [Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen, 1. Heft: Die Familie der Rüsselquallen (Geryonidae) (1865)] and two articles.

Calls attention to a new rhizopod from Nice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4934A

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Riley bequest of 1948)
Summary:

Acknowledges CD’s paper on "Climbing plants".

Mentions Asa Gray’s complimentary notice in Silliman’s Journal [Am. J. Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82].

His difficulty in understanding how males of Daphnia or any other genus can produce eggs. If there is no impregnation, how can there be sexual organs? Why call one form male and another female?

He has sent CD his paper on "the new Potato Bug".

Will soon send "On Phytophagi Species & Unity of Coloration". [phytophagic!?]

Complaints about practices of the English Post Office.

His current research and description of the rationale of his experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11939

From:
William Mathews Jr.
To:
Alexander Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.301
Summary:

Thanks for his paper on the Pyrenees. Has he made any calculations on the depth from which thermal springs derive? The observations made with the spectroscope are interesting. Sent JH two memoirs by Count de S. Robert; would like them back and any comments JH has to make on them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4935

From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 17
Summary:

Sends facsimile reproduction of CD’s handwriting [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865) no. 262]. Requests a sample of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s hand and autograph for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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