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DCP-LETT-4750

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B20–1
Summary:

His distress that his engagement has been broken off.

Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;

"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[21 January 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #37 (Transcription inc: #38)
Summary:

Lists works received. Has been suffering severely from bronchitic attacks. Is translating Iliad into hexameter verse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304)
Summary:

Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.

Agrees with CL on beauty.

Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].

CD’s illness.

CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Walford
Date:
22 [Jan-Apr] 1865
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237)
Summary:

CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4753

From:
Henry Denny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 80: B150–1
Summary:

Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11103

From:
Edward John Jennings
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.440
Summary:

Regrets that illness prevented JH's attendance at the Finance Committee. Gives the reasons why a change of uniform is necessary for the Rifle Volunteers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6716

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.33
Summary:

Officially writes on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle to thank JH for his assistance in providing samples of the South African meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7584

From:
Henry Herman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.101; Reel 9
Summary:

Received seven copies [of JH's Cape Results]. Will forward these to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6803

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.120
Summary:

Is grateful for her letter of condolence on the death of his niece. Is thankful to hear of the safe arrival of her son. His own health is better.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1265

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.29
Summary:

Commiserates with JH in his illness, and says CB is ill also and confined to his house. Seeing JH's letter in the Philosophical Magazine [see JH's 1864-12-20] seems to CB to obviate completely the need for any further response.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4754

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 7
Summary:

John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
27 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.305)
Summary:

Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].

Mentions JEG’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4879

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 231–2
Summary:

J. D. Hooker will not be able to visit CD because of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4756

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 79
Summary:

Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.

HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].

He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].

Contributor:
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Herschel6553

From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.296
Summary:

Sending two pamphlets which he thinks are of great value, the one on the cure for sea-sickness being especially noteworthy. Would be glad of JH's support for Dr. John Chapman's claims.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4756F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
28 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield
Summary:

Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;

especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2220

From:
Johann C. Bohn
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28n Januar 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/103, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2219

From:
Jean François Léonard Alexandre de Colnet d’Huart
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 29 janvier 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/137, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.430 & 24.83
Summary:

Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9225

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207116 (C: RS:HS 24.82)
Summary:

Sends Book XIV of JH's Iliad translation. Fears he may not live to finish it and may not find a publisher. Glorious winter in England. Son William and wife have arrived in Calcutta.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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