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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From:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 January 1865
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 January [1865]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 49-50
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 160]
Summary:
A congratulatory letter from Darwin to ARW about 2 of his papers he had sent Darwin; one on parrots and the other on geographic distribution.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49)
Summary:
Commends ARW’s papers on parrots
and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].
Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
30 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4)
Summary:
Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.
Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.166
Summary:
Encloses two certificates and hopes that he will give the candidates his support. Has just received a letter from Angelo Secchi on the Herschelian prism.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.297
Summary:
Thanks for kind letter. Pamphlets should have reached him by now. Discourses on the effects of cold and heat on the spinal cord.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
31 January 1865
Source of text:
John Herschel-Shorland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.431
Summary:
Origin of siliceous minerals sent by JH. Planning tenth edition of Principles of Geology. Convinced that changes in position of land and sea were principal causes of climate changes. Questions [James] Croll's theory of astronomical influences on climate, based on data from U. J. J. Le Verrier. Compares earth-pillars in Rhone valley with those in Tyrol. Wants tenth edition to include woodcut of JH's [1821?] drawings of earth-pillars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.167 & 24.84
Summary:
Returns the certificates duly signed and also Angelo Secchi's letter, which he was pleased to see. Elaborates on the possible causes of James Nasmyth's 'willow leaves.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B22–3
Summary:
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
