From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0467; Reel 1055
Summary:
Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0468 (C: 0469 & 0470); Reel 1055
Summary:
Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[5 November 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0469 & 0470; Reel 1055
Summary:
Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[2 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0471.1 & -0471.2; Reel 1055
Summary:
'Not Sent.' Clarifies values quoted in JH's letter of 5 Nov. to RS.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[6 December 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0472; Reel 1055
Summary:
Clarifies information in postscript of JH's letter of 5 Nov. to RS.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 264
Summary:
Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
[29 Aug 1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Strachey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C56–7
Summary:
Sends observations from a friend in India confirming CD’s view that bees cut the tubes of flowers to extract [nectar] in order to save time.
Also observations on snails descending from trees on threads suspended from their tails.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:
The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.
Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project